Museums and Local Development: An Introduction to Museums, Sustainability and Well-being

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Acknowledgements

I wish to thank the people who have read and commented on this text, including Afşin Altayli, Bruno Brulon Soares, Alison Hadfield, Nina Laurie, François Mairesse, Douglas Worts, and Rehema White. Special thanks are owed to Mélanie Foehn, Peter Davis and Aedin MacDevitt for their generous support to this issue.

Research for this Introduction has been supported by the project EU-LACMUSEUMS, which has received funding from the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement Number 693669. For more information on EU-LAC-MUSEUMS, see: http://www.eulacmuseums.net

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1 For more information on the EU-LACMUSEUMS bi-regional Youth Exchange, see: https://bit.ly/36iImOz

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Karen Brown

Karen Brown is Senior Lecturer in the School of Art History, University of St Andrews in Scotland. She is also Director of the University’s Museums, Galleries and Collections Institute (MGCI), teaching Museum and Gallery Studies. A Board Member of ICOM’s International Committee on Museology (ICOFOM), she previously served as a Board Member of ICOM Europe and ICOM Ireland.

A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, she has published a number of works in museology and is currently overseeing several research projects relating to community heritage and sustainability with particular focus on Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. From 2016-2020 she is coordinating an EU-funded Horizon 2020 international consortium project entitled ‘EU-LAC-MUSEUMS: Museums and Community: Concepts, Experiences, and Sustainability in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.’ (http://www.eulacmuseums.net).