TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT FOR MUSEUM
Prof. Dr. Fethiye Erbay
İstanbul University,Head of Museum Management Department
Head of Museology Department
erbayf@gmail.com; erbayf@istanbul.edu.tr; erbayf@boun.edu.tr ;
Museums, as service providing institutions have a certain degree of technology and thus, various technical
equipment and facilities. The land of museum, buildings, facilities, fixed assets, collection, materials are corporeal
production items. There has to be a certain level of technology in order to provide the efficient and effective
performance of the human production factors such as labour force. The construction of an effective link between
movable and fixed assets and labour foce determines the technological development level of the museum. Technical
equipments and methods constitute the technical power of the museum.
The museum technology management is to provide the cooperation between people and the right orientation
(activities) of them towards the right purposes. In recent years, the effects of the difficulties source from the
acceleration of the corporate profile and the major alternations in general directly affects the management. The basic
item of the technology management is to use the power of each and every person’s cooperation in case of not being
able to succeed the task on their own. It must have develop a new attitude which takes the staff and the work area of
them and the harmony and balance between two of them.
Technology management is the sum of activities and efforts through building up the cooperation between
technological structure and the staff and right orientation of them towards a purpose.
Today, museums and institutions about history have to deal with the technology management. Young specialists,
large visitor masses, insufficient government resources, traditionally managed museums are extemporaneous about
technology management.
As a result, the rapid changes seen in every level of technology is at an incredible speed. About this amazing
development, museums have some problems to deal with. Not being able to catch up the speed of studies about
technological management, and focusing on management side in case of museums, caught our museums’ staff without
any warning. But, new opportunities brought about this new technology cannot be disregarded.
Museums are the cooperation systems which bring the people more than one together with the means and
machines. When it is reevaluated, technology management is not boring or frightening branch of science, but a branch
of art focused on human. It is the most essential factor in the life-circle of the rapidly changing museums for standing
and constant development. New technologies are important in terms of offering new opportunities to museums, they
are not threats.
Key words: Technology Management, Museum Management
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