最近对博物馆的创新努力会否成为博物馆学的第三次革命?许多作者认为博物馆的第一次革命发生于大约1880年到20世纪初之间,这个时期是博物馆领域的专业化时期。第二次革命发端于1960年,当时出现了所谓的新博物馆学(Davis,1999;Van Mensh,1992)。作为今天的国际博物馆协会(ICOM)的附属组织,新博物馆学运动(MINOM)的创始人在那时将MINOM从ICOM中脱离了出去,这是因为ICOM的方法趋于保守,不利于发展。可是MINOM此后愈发受到ICOM(至少是ICOM内部某些部门)的认可和关注。例如,我们今天可以看到ICOM主办的期刊《国际博物馆》第一期内容全都聚焦巴西这一个国家,因为巴西是博物馆学运动的最前沿,具备最激进的社会变革。 Will the recent innovation efforts at museums become the third revolution in museum science? Many authors consider the museum’s first revolution to take place between 1880 and the early 1900s, a period of specialization in the field of museums. The second revolution started in 1960, when so-called neo-museumism emerged (Davis, 1999; Van Mensh, 1992). As a subsidiary of today’s International Association of Museums (ICOM), the founder of the New Museum Movement (MINOM) at that time detached MINOM from ICOM as the ICOM approach tended to be conservative and unfavorable to development. However, MINOM has since been increasingly recognized and focused by ICOM, at least some of the departments within ICOM. For example, we can see today that the first issue of the ICOM-sponsored journal International Museum focuses on a country like Brazil because Brazil is at the forefront of the museum science movement and has the most radical social transformation.