[Foundation-l] National Portrait Gallery

[Lars Aronsson]

David Gerard wrote:

> I have been told this by Wikimedians who used to work in and 
> with such institutions. Governments told them to be "more 
> businesslike", this attracted the people you describe.

If there was a document originating from elected politicians, 
telling public *schools* to be more "businesslike", that would 
cause public outrage, at least in Sweden.

So can we find the sources where this kind of encouragement is 
directed towards public museums?  We need document numbers and 
dates, to trace how the trend has spread between countries.  
Annual reports from some larger museums should be a good starting 
point.  Our allies could be individual experienced museum people, 
archivists and librarians, who disagree with current policy.


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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