Analysis of key competencies in museums. Proposal for a tool to assess key competencies in museum managers

• Main Author: Zara Marcela Arguello Arciniegas
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universitat Politècnica de València 2015-11-01
• Series: Culturas
• Subjects: Competencias transversales; Gestión Cultural; Museos.
• Online Access: http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/cs/article/view/4217

Within the field of Cultural Management, such a wide world and sometimes so difficult to outline in terms of all-encompassing, key competencies play a very important role. Therefore, we have tried to propose a tool to assess key competencies in cultural managers who perform their professional work in museums. We present a set of key competencies and then, a list of ten key competencies which are considered important for the staff of cultural management of a museum. For this it is assumed, first, the key competencies proposed by the universities offering master's degrees in official Cultural Management in Spain and, second, the key competencies proposed for the ICOM museum workers. Finally, we present a tool for the evaluation of the chosen key competencies.