미술관 경영과 수장품 정책 = Art museum management and collections policies

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This is a study on the art museum management and collections policies, which should be executed on the economic principle and in the perspective of a non-profit making permanent institution. An art museum is a cultural and artistic complex for not only the laymen but also the professional in order to relish, study and enjoy essence of arts, information of artists, appreciation of art performances, achievement of aesthetics and art history, etc. Common people, critics, artists, lovers and manias of art museums hope generally to get experimental exhibitions, educational programmes, knowledge and experience in relation with their life. This trend is becoming more focused by the will of the art museum itself to cover the specialized fields of the arts and art museum activities. More effective art museum management is also made by the systematic collections management. Art museums in the future should be subsisted on their account. They should be established and managed in ways to meet the desires of the users and to get funds from the voluntary supporters or devotees of arts. For purpose of self-support management of art museums, they should be managed with the aim to serve for users and they also should be located in easy accessible places. The location of art museum is very important more than its collections in the aspect of accessibility as well as absorptivity. Art museums should be within accessible distance from the visitors or users, who are divided into segments according to the academic level, age, sex, occupation, expectation and so on. Art museums should develop re-visits of the users by constantly developing new items to relish, study and or enjoy. When they find the same as before, their revisits will be reduced, and the efficiency of management is fallen. It is necessary to research and develop new menus on art museum activities and to provide a new serial repertories on the variety of art presentations with users. Supposed previous art museums were focused on originals and manager-oriented institution, they in the future should be developed on artistic resources and user-oriented complex experiencing arts and art performances. The resources of art museums may be largely categorized into tangible art objects and intangible art performances, or into material data and non-material information. The collections policies articulate the art museum activities in its collections care, demonstrating that art museums are behaving legally and responsibly towards its collections. They should be explained why an art museum is in operation and how it goes about its business, and it articulates the art museum’s professional standards regarding art objects left in its care. The collections policies based on the mission of an art museum should be at least covered with the purpose of the its collection goals, with the method of acquiring artistic resources for the collections and with method of de-accessioning and disposing art objects from the collections. Beside, for the best and specialized collections of an art museum, the policies of the art museum should be executed in a specialized category of or a subject of artistic resources related to art objects and art performances. In conclusion, an art museum management should be necessarily based on the economic principle included the maximum efficiency and common benefit of management. And collections policies should be also based on characteristics of collections and on the economic principles for better getting originality in artistic resources related to art objects and art performances.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 미술품과 미술관 Ⅱ. 미술관 경영의 다각화 Ⅲ. 수장품 정책 수립과 실행 Ⅳ. 앞서 가는 미술관의 활동과 전망 참고문헌 Abstract