The Ecomuseum Under a Managerial Perspective

Abstract

The interest in avoiding the negative consequences of careless management of common goods like cultural and natural resources has sparked an interdisciplinary debate on this common issue. Which kind of tool can be used by the social community to “take care” of its cultural and natural resources? The New Museology has provided different forms of museums, which combine community, environment and cultural heritage. Among them, the ecomuseum seems to be more suitable to meet this need, especially in the less favourable areas. This chapter aims at extending the knowledge of ecomuseums from the ecomuseology perspective to a managerial perspective. The morphological and physiological features of the cultural heritage organizations have been analysed through the latter.