On Sustainable and Community Museums

On Sustainable and Community Museums, edited by Karen Brown, Peter Davis, and Luís Raposo

The aim of this Book on Community and Sustainable Museums is to provide reflections and didactic tools to suggest how a community might go about conceiving and creating a new community or ecomuseum if they so wished. We also seek to share the experience and knowledge of the EU-LAC-MUSEUMS Project Advisors - Beatriz Espinoza, Hugues de Varine, Teresa Morales Lersch, and Peter Davis - concerning the key concepts and features of community and sustainable museums. 

Part 1 - Community and sustainable museums - concepts and key features offers theoretical, philosophical and practical proposals and experiences as to how we might define, maintain, and promote the sustainability of museum communities and eco- and community museums in Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe.

Part 2 - Creating and sustaining community museums and ecomuseums then progresses to thinking in more practical terms – at once didactic and provocative - for the benefit of communities considering the creation of a new ecomuseum or community museum.

Part 3 - Here, a selection of community and sustainable museums from our project partner countries showcases museums from each of the research partner countries in our project: the Anglophone Caribbean, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Portugal, Peru, Spain and Scotland.