Museums. Health and Wellbeing: Building on Tradition to Increase Museums’ Impact

Obrazlažući poveznicu između muzeja i zdravlja stanovništva, autor se oslanja na dva argumenta: prvo, da je pojava javnih muzeja u 19. stoljeću bila dijelom pokreta širokih razmjera usmjerenoga na poboljšanje javnoga zdravlja i blagostanja te drugo, da postoje značajni dokazi, prema statistikama o javnom zdravlju, prema kojima posjet muzeju doista ima stvaran učinak na zdravlje ljudi.In order to elaborate the connection between museums and public health and wellbeing, the author builds a case around two arguments: first that the emergence of public museums in the 19th century was part of a broad movement to improve public health and wellbeing; and second, that there is significant evidence from public health statistics that museum visiting does make a real difference to people’s health