Le monde des musées / World of museums

Abstract

Museums are repositories of knowledge and places of discovery: but what do we really know about the nature and direction of the scholarship that takes place in Canada’s museums? As museum professionals, we believe museum research is about finding out more about collections. But this is changing — and rapidly. More contemporary concerns relating to issues such as gender, ownership, and the sacred are now also part of the equation, enriching, although also complicating, the museum researcher’s task.