The Social Museum in the Caribbean: Grassroots Heritage Initiatives and Community Engagement - Appendix: Caribbean Museums Database

Abstract

This publication is designed to accompany the PhD dissertation The Social Museum in the Caribbean (published open access in 2018 by Csilla E. Ariese-Vandemeulebroucke with Sidestone Press; available open access via: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/65998) as an additional, separate appendix. Although this book can be read independently, its main function is to present the data which was analyzed in that dissertation. The dissertation, available online as open access publication, aimed to answer how Caribbean museums are realigning their societal role in relation to contemporary Caribbean communities. This was achieved through two complementary studies. First, on a macro level, a regional museum survey of 195 museums in 25 different islands and countries throughout the Caribbean and their participatory practices. Secondly, on a micro level, by conducting two in depth case studies into community engagement processes, one in Dominica and the other in Barbados. This publication presents the data collected October 2013–October 2016 during the regional museum survey in the form of 195 database entries.</p