New South Wales Museums And Art Galleries Inquiry: Musing Shelf 601 Gallery

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FOREWORD

Public 'musingplaces' – museums and art galleries – hold in their collections the cultural knowledge; cultural and intellectual property, 'public assets', relative to diverse communities of ownership and interest.

Most of the people who make up these communities, individuals and groups, have many layers of individual and shared interests and ownerships.

Sometimes these people are called stakeholders, and even audiences, but their 'ownerships' are much more deeply held than any of these descriptors might suggest.

Indeed, it would not be unusual for some of their ownerships and interests to be in conflict with each other. Consequently, it is important to identify not only 'the people' but also their ownerships and interests without conceding to an impulse to 'rank' them or some imperative to privilege one group over another.

Typically, these 'ownerships' will be deeply felt and they should be vigorously defended.

In the end all this is a matter of 'lore' rather than 'law' and for each and every individual it's a matter of identity ... and undeniably that 'matters'.”

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Musing Shelf 601 Gallery

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