L’impacte social dels museus. El cas de les associacions d’amics dels museus

Jove Casabella, Eva
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This thesis, within the theme of the social impact of museums and public studies, deals with the associations of friends of museums in Catalonia. To analyse them, a search has been carried out using different techniques, both qualitative and quantitative: personal interviews, a form, a survey, and focus groups. The hypothesis is that the museums make a positive social impact on their environment and on their most loyal public: the associations of friends of museums. These associations of friends of museums play a decisive role in the strategy of the museums to build up the loyalty of their public, while at the same time, they are a very significant element in the interrelationship between the public and the museums. As a theoretical starting point, the social impact of museums has been considered as a beneficial and welfare element for society. Museums produce a social impact on society, as a whole (which is difficult to quantify and qualify), on its environment and on its public, which has a positive experience. The existing bibliography has been reviewed, different associations of friends of museums have been analysed to see their characteristics and data has been collected to analyse it objectively, studying their characteristics, training process and typologies of audiences that form them. The associations of friends of museums under study are in Catalonia and the phenomenon is present throughout the territory and in different types of museums. They appeared from the 1950s onwards and, despite the variety of eventualities, it is a manifestation that has survived to the present day. This explains a little of the cultural association movement, and, also, a lot of very significant aspects of the history of the museums in Catalonia. The number of members has increased over the years, and this shows us the growing impetus these associations bring to connect with people with the same interests and the drive to collaborate on a voluntary basis. From the data obtained, it can be concluded that their associations of friends have a positive impact on the work of the museums at different levels, strengthening their social role and the interrelationship with the public ​
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