Museology as a university discipline has been cultivated for almost sixty years. During that time, it has taken a great step forward, not least in quantitative terms. There are hundreds of university departments named museology or museum studies all over the world. The book, magazine and internet output dealing with museology is enormous. However, we are witnessing a certain loosening up …
Is museology a theory or a set of practices? Is it a science or just museum work? Is it the same as museum theory? Or is it autonomous from the museum? Is it a philosophy or is it based on social experimentation? Are we evolving towards the path of a metamuseology? If so, what are the boundaries of this ‘museology’ that has shown to have no boundaries in the past decades of theoretical rese…