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    Muzeele nu sunt o urgență? Date și percepții despre cum au traversat muzeele pandemia COVID-19
    (Institutul Național pentru Cercetare și Formare Culturală, 2020-12) Zbuchea, Alexandra; Bîră, Monica
    In the past decades museums have faced new challenges, leading to many changes in museum management. The role of museums, as well as how they relate to their audiences has changed substantially. The COVID-19 pandemics adds supplementary challenges to museums, especially in the way how they interact with their visitors. For now, we could not predict how durable these would be and if museums are going to go back to „normal”. The present paper is an investigation of how the Romanian museums, especially the ones in Bucharest, adapted their public activity to the pandemic. This allows museums to look back, to learn their lessons, and to design effective strategies for the coming months and years. The study also includes an evaluation of the perceptions of how Romanian museums dealt with this new challenge of the society – the pandemic. The third part of the investigation refers to the museum memes popular in these times. Overall, the research offers an overview of the Romanian museums in times of the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to their public, offering a glimpse into their public image.
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    Through the public’s lens: are museums active members of society? an investigation during the COVID-19 pandemic
    (Springer, 2021-04-01) Zbuchea, Alexandra; Romanelli, Mauro; Bîră, Monica
    Traditionally, museums have cultural and educational roles. Increasingly, however, museums are also assuming a social role in engaging with visitors and communities and strengthening social involvement coherently given the changing expectations of the public. Museums have become participatory organisations that contribute to the well-being of society. Considering the global health challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic, this chapter investigates the way museums have responded to support their communities, as well as the public’s perception of museums’ civic profile. An online survey was applied in Italy, Romania, and the Republic of Moldova to identify the dimensions of the activity of museums regarding how the support offered by museums is visible and appreciated. The study shows that museums reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, developing online and digital sources to adapt and deliver their offers, to have a voice within society. Generally speaking, it seems that the public does not pay much attention to museums concerned in contemporary societal debates. Understanding the public image of museums helps museums redesign their organisation and activities to meet the expectations of contemporary audiences coherently, given the recent societal developments. This investigation is among the first to highlight the way museums have assumed an activist role, providing support to the wider public, by reacting to the COVID-19 pandemic.