Taking stock: museum studies and museum practices in Canada

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Acknowledgements

We wish to thank the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, the University of Toronto Art Centre, the Ontario Association of Art Galleries, the Ontario Museum Association and the Department of Canadian Heritage for their support of the Taking Stock: Museum Studies and Museum Practices in Canada conference held at Hart House, University of Toronto, in April 2010. We also wish to thank Robert R. Janes, Editor-in-Chief, and the Editorial Board of Museum Management and Curatorship for their support in the development of these conference papers into manuscripts for publication, as well as our numerous peer reviewers for providing insightful and helpful comments. Finally, we thank our authors, whose thoughtful reflections realize the ambitions we had hoped to achieve for this special issue.

Notes

1. Please see http://takingstockmuseumstudies.ischool.utoronto.ca/.

2. Etienne Wenger has further defined the term ‘communities of practice.’ Please consult his writing on the subject, Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity (Cambridge University Press, 1998), or his website: http://www.ewenger.com/theory/.