Museums as Good Places

Abstract

OpenArch Conference - 25 May 2015, Cardiff. In 1903 the American industrialist, Andrew Carnegie offered the then enormous sum of $2,500,000 to the trustees of a fund which he had created for the citizens of the city of Dunfermline, Scotland, the place of his birth. He instructed these trustees to use the money to enhance the lives of the people of the city, urging them that "your work is experimental . . . Remember that you are pioneers and do not be afraid of making mistakes; those who never make mistakes never make anything." (Green 1973, 26)

Keywords

• museum
• heritage
• heritage management
• newest era
• united kingdom
• review