PENGELOLAAN KOLEKSI MUSEUM BENTENG VREDEBURG YOGYAKARTA: Berorientasi Pada Pelayanan Publik

Abstract

Initially, Indonesian museums were run as object-oriented museums. Recently there has been a paradigm change that encourages museums to move to public-oriented museums. Generally, museums are founded with the main aim to preserve cultural heritage which includes protection, development, and utilization. Museums have also other functions as preservation institution and source of information. As preservation institution, museum activities include aspects of managing storage system, maintenance, and security. Meanwhile, as source of information, museums carry out research and presentation of information. Collection is the core of museum. Here museum collection is defined as natural or cultural object which are stored and used as source of information to be presented in the museum. One of general problems faced by museum is that not all of the collection having good supporting data. In addition, not all museum collections are able to be presented properly to the public. Therefore, a museum should have a clearly planned collection management which includes physical maintenance, administrative recording, and managing collection flow. Beside, research should be conducted to find information behind the collection. then communicated to the public. Collection management includes the activity of procurement, administration, conservation, storage, research and communicating the collection to be used by the people. The problem raised in this research is related to the collection management of Benteng Vredeburg Museum in the effort to improve service to the public. All the effort are carried out to accomplish the function of museum as preservation institution and source of information. So far the museum service is considered as not satisfactory. This is due to the limited understanding among the museum staffs and public in general on the real function of the museum. Therefore, the museum should improve itself, so that the role of the museum as preservation institution and information sources can be achieved. The museum improvement should not only be conducted in many aspects of the collection management but also in the presentation of the museum collection as part of museum communication to public. This research offers some consideration on collection management system and efforts that should be done to make Benteng Vredeburg Museum to be more public-oriented. Museum collection should be managed administratively, have complete data, be accessible easily and be useful for people. Through these efforts the role of the museum as cultural preservation institution and information sources can be realized