Museum Policies

A Museum is an organization that preserves artifacts, historical, cultural, or scientific objects. These objects are presented in most public museums for a member of the public to view. This is done through temporary or permanent platforms that are set up by museums’ management. Normally, big museums are found in big cities throughout the globe. However, there are still museums in rural areas and small urban centers. The museum’s primary purpose is to serve researchers, experts and acts as an attraction site for tourists. Mainly museums’ purpose serves researchers better than members of the public who visit for adventure. (Brown et al., 2018).

There are different types of museums such as battle records, science, kids’, herbal records, and artworks’ museums. Globally, the largest and the most toured museums include the Louvre of France, the Chinese National Museum, the British and National Gallery in London, the Vatican Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of New York. Haylland (2017), the International council of museum report, indicates more than 55,000 museums in the globe.

To ensure better management of museums and preservation of artifacts, policies have been enacted globally and are passed from one generation to another. Some of these policies are listed below:

1. Young persons, those below 18 years old, are supposed to be guided by an older person, such as a mother, father, or another elder, while in the museum premises. Any wild acts, including racing, are not allowed in the museum.

2. No visitor is allowed to tease and the exhibited animal by any means, for example, handling them or feeding them. If this has to happen, it should be supervised by the museum-authorized employee.

3. Objects at the “Please Touch” are allowed to be handled by anyone, but it’s the parents or guardians’ responsibility to ensure that children handle them with care to avoid breaking them.

4. The management of the museum has the right to immediately evict a visitor from the museum’s premise if he/she is deemed unruly or failed to adhere to the set rules.

5. Travelers can be allowed to touch the museum workers’ shortfall, but they are only do so at their own risk because there’s no guarantee that they are germ-free.

6. Taking foodstuff and chewing gums is prohibited in the museum premises unless approved by the museum staff to do so in the premises.

7. Any damage caused by the visitor due to his/her negligence of museum guidelines he/she is held liable.

8. All Museum animals are under veterinary supervision. Even if our animals’ possibility of contracting the illness is extremely low, all visitors are advised to wash their hands with cleaning soap after touching the animals.

9. Any film or photo was taken by a visitor while in a museum can only be used for personal purposes. Any sale of such material is explicitly prohibited.

10. Any damage that happens to the visitor due to his/her failure to adhere to the museum’s rules and regulations is not the museum’s responsibility. So, the tourist should adhere to the museums’ policies to avoid issues with museums’ management.

Reference

Hylland, Ole Marius. “Even better than the real thing? Digital copies and digital museums in a digital cultural policy.” Culture unbound 9.1 (2017): 62–84.

Brown, Karen, and François Mairesse. “The definition of the museum through its social role.” Curator: The Museum Journal 61.4 (2018): 525–539.