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Dictionnaire encyclop\u00e9dique de mus\u00e9ologie<\/i>, edited by Andr\u00e9 Desvall\u00e9es and Fran\u00e7ois Mairesse. Paris: Armand Colin, 2011. 732 p, 48 plates.\u00a0 Encyclopaedic articles on 21 terms, selective 500 word dictionary with definitions, bibliography, amply illustrated in colour; in French.<\/p>\n

Une premi\u00e8re dans le monde francophone!<\/a><\/p>\n

The Dictionnaire encyclop\u00e9dique de mus\u00e9ologie<\/i>, produced by the members of ICOFOM and supported by ICOM, is a momentous publication with a long, ambitious history.\u00a0 In 1978 the ICOM Executive Council adopted the project of a Trait\u00e9 de mus\u00e9ologie,<\/i> with an outline prepared by Georges Henri Rivi\u00e8re that proposed four volumes.\u00a0 Rivi\u00e8re was already 80 years old at the time, and could no longer lead the work for the years that it would require.<\/p>\n

The year before, 1977, at its General Assembly Moscow, in addition to founding the International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM), ICOM launched an appeal to the \u201dCommittees of ICOM to submit their proposals for a uniform museological terminology…\u201d The result was the publication in 1986 by the Hungarian National Committee of ICOM of the Dictionarium, Museologicaum<\/i> \u2013 a volume listing museological terms in 20 different languages, but without definitions.<\/p>\n

In 1993 Martin Sch\u00e4rer, then President of ICOFOM, proposed the compilation a dictionary of selected museological subjects with defining articles and a choice of museological terms in a thesaurus form \u2013 a project adopted and led by Andr\u00e9 Desvall\u00e9es with international collaboration.\u00a0\u00a0 Joined by Fran\u00e7ois Mairesse as Co-Editor in 2008, with a broad group of museology writers, the impressive result is what we have today.<\/p>\n

A brochure of 83 pages entitled Key Concepts of Museology<\/i> with an introduction to each of the 21 fundamental terms chosen for discussion in major articles, published by Armand Colin and edited by Andr\u00e9 Desvall\u00e9es and Fran\u00e7ois Mairesse, was distributed in four languages (French, English, Spanish and Chinese) at the ICOM General Assembly in Shanghai.\u00a0 It is in part an appeal to make a translation of the entire volume, which includes a selective dictionary of 500 fully defined terms mentioned in the articles.\u00a0 In itself this brochure is an introduction to the fundamentals of museology.<\/p>\n

Why is this major publication in French, and right now in French only? A quote from the introduction in the brochure explains this choice:<\/p>\n

The French-speaking museal world in the ICOM dialogue<\/b><\/p>\n

Why did we choose a committee with almost exclusively French speakers? Many reasons explain this choice, most but not all of them practical ones. We know that the idea of an international and perfectly harmonious collective work is a utopian vision, when not everyone shares a common language (scientific or not). The international committees of ICOM are well aware of this situation, which, to avoid the risk of a Babel, leads them to favour one language \u2013 English \u2013 today\u2019s lingua franca<\/i>. Naturally, the choice of the smallest common denominator works to the benefit of those who master the language, often to the detriment of many others less familiar with the tongue of Shakespeare who are forced to present their thoughts only in a caricatured version. Using one of the three ICOM languages (English, French and Spanish) was unavoidable, but which one? The nationality of the first contributors, under the direction of Andr\u00e9 Desvall\u00e9es (who had worked for many years with Georges Henri Rivi\u00e8re, the first Director of ICOM and the founder of French museology) quickly led to the selection of French, but there were other arguments in its favour. Most of the contributors can read if not all three, then at least two of the ICOM languages, even though their command may be far from perfect. We are familiar with the wealth of Anglo-American contribu\u00adtions in the museum field, but we must point out that most of these authors \u2013 with some notable exceptions, such as the emblematic figures of Patrick Boylan and Peter Davis, read neither French nor Spanish. The choice of French in connection, we hope, with a fairly good knowledge of foreign literature, allowed us to embrace, if not all contributions in the museum field then at least some of its aspects which are not generally explored but which are very important for ICOM. We are however aware of the limits of our research and hope that this work will inspire other teams to present, in their own language (German or Italian, for example), a different approach to the museum field.<\/p>\n

This major work is a volume that should be in every museology \u2013 and museum \u2013 library; many museologists will want their own copy.\u00a0 We hope that the members of ICOFOM will help to ensure this.<\/p>\n

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Dictionnaire encyclop\u00e9dique de mus\u00e9ologie, edited by Andr\u00e9 Desvall\u00e9es and Fran\u00e7ois Mairesse. Paris: Armand Colin, 2011. 732 p, 48 plates.\u00a0 Encyclopaedic articles on 21 terms, selective 500 word dictionary with definitions, bibliography, amply illustrated in colour; in French. Une premi\u00e8re dans le monde francophone! The Dictionnaire encyclop\u00e9dique de mus\u00e9ologie, produced by the members of ICOFOM and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icofom.mini.icom.museum\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icofom.mini.icom.museum\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icofom.mini.icom.museum\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icofom.mini.icom.museum\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icofom.mini.icom.museum\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icofom.mini.icom.museum\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2747,"href":"https:\/\/icofom.mini.icom.museum\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions\/2747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icofom.mini.icom.museum\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icofom.mini.icom.museum\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icofom.mini.icom.museum\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2744"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icofom.mini.icom.museum\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}