Opponentindlæg: Museums as changing organizations and exponents of the museum institution

The museum institution is international and polymorphous with blurry boundaries. However, the institution defines itself and its members quite rigorously. Hieta discusses the museum institution as “an institution which is basically bound on the commitment, how the past is dealt with in the society. The institution is quite binding.” (Translation SP) However, the societal changes and economic exigencies have over and over again tested and changed the understanding of the foci of museums’ tasks, destroyed the basis of the activities of the museums, and created them new duties and potentials.