Authors
Maria de Lourdes Lima dos Santos (global coord.) and José Soares Neves (executive coord.)
Title
Inquérito aos Museus em Portugal [Survey on Museums in Portugal]
Edition: Instituto Português de Museus
Edition Date: March 2000 - Language: Portuguese
ISBN: 972-776-041-4 - Legal Deposit: 149348/00
N. of Pages: 260 - N. of Copies: 1300
Type of Cover: Paperback - Format: 23,9 x 30 - Price: Out of print
Abstract:
This publication
analyses 530 museums in operation that answered to the Questionnaire sent in
the beginning of 1999.
The museums were classified according to the following variables: Tutelage
to which the museum reports, Type of Museum, Geographic Location and Period
of Existence. The Survey addresses six topics 1. premises and services; 2.
human and financial resources; 3. museum collection, equipment and
activities; 4. visitors and relationship with the exterior; 5. access and
visibility of museum; 6. main difficulties. In addition to analysis of the
Survey results, this project gave rise to other products, specifically the
construction of a Museums Database and two evaluation models of museums
based on criteria of differentiated requirements (Model I - "Minimal" -
minimum number of criteria: 7; Model II - Development - widened number of
criteria: 14).