Survey on Museums and Cultural Creative Industries and the Impact of the COVID-19 on Museums in Turkey


Turan İ., Kılıç H., Yalı S.

ICOM CECA EUROPE CONFERENCE, Arhus, Danimarka, 6 - 08 Ekim 2022, ss.9-10, (Özet Bildiri)

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Arhus
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Danimarka
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.9-10
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi-Cerrahpaşa Adresli: Evet

Özet

European Commission’s Creative Europe framework programme highlights the potential of creative economies. In this context, the status of museums as a core part of the creative economy has been studied across Europe by the Network of European Museum Organization (NEMO) in 2015 and 2017. This research on museums and the creative industries shows that museums’ role in the context of creative industries across Continental Europe has only been vaguely recognized. Even though collaboration with other creative industries was seen as advantageous, such partnerships were not top of the agenda for museum governing bodies. NEMO also investigated the impact of the COVID-19 situation on museums in Europe in 2020. Unfortunately, these studies conducted by NEMO do not include museums in Turkey. According to the data of the Ministry of Culture, there are total of 494 museums in Turkey in 2021, of which 205 are public and 289 are private. This research, carried out within the framework of the project titled Innovative Museums for a Digital Europe (INNOMADE), aims to examine both how museums in our country are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the potential of our museums to cooperate with the creative and cultural industries in a digitalized Europe. The data required for the research will be obtained by using a 25-item questionnaire developed by the researchers based on the relevant literature and expert opinions. Within the scope of the research, it is aimed to reach all public and private museums operating in Turkey, which constitute the research population, using an online questionnaire. Analysis of the survey data will reveal the cultural creative industries, digitalization capacities of museums in Turkey, and their level of resilience to the adverse conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords: InnoMade, Cultural Creative Industries, Digitalization, COVID-19, Museum, Turkey