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NEW TYPES OF MUSEUMS NOT ACCEPTABLE BY ACADEMICS: POP-UP MUSEUMS AND NFT MUSEUM

  One of our museologist academics who also contributed to the construction of many museums and one of the active names in ICOM, stated that she never thought of Pop-Up museums in the category of museums and refused to teach about them within the scope of master's program courses. She doesn't even mention NFT and museums anyway. Do you think that academics' rejection of a type of museum category is reason enough to ignore that type of museum? Of course not. We started talking like Graham Hancock in the Ancient Apocalypse series . Why might some museum categories have difficulty gaining acceptance? What depends on the acceptance of a museum's genre? Based on the data, we mentioned that there are over 104,000 museums in the world. This number is increasing and there are various categories of museums in the world. Do you know the types and categories of museums? Even if you knew by now, new types of museums are still emerging, for example, have you ever heard of the worl...

MASTERS DEGREES IN MUSEUM STUDIES

+ "I WANT TO BECOME A MUSEOLOGIST!" - "THEN, BE ONE OF THEM!" When we examined the academic programs for Museology , we realized that they were directed to some programs that are not related to   Museology or that do not fully cover the competencies of the discipline. What does this mean? In the lists of master programs, those who want to be museologists; we have seen that it is equipped with programs such as curatorial studies, art gallery management, art consultancy, art history, archeology, sociology, etc. which are among the stakeholders of museology but do not cover museology as the only discipline. Museology is one of the academic programs that includes many disciplines. A  museologist must be versatile. It's not enough just to be an expert in curatorial scenarios or just know art history. A museologist can be an architect, an engineer, an art historian, sometimes an art consultant, sometimes a corporate communicator, sometimes an exhibition specialis...