2. Instrumentality in the Museums and
Galleries Sector
• MLA – ‘Strategic Priorities’
• Local Government – KLOE
3. Defining Instrumentality
• Using culture as a means or instrument for
attaining goals in non-cultural areas
• What sort of instrumentality?
4. Sources of Instrumentalisation
• Privatisation/Commodification
• State Change – NPM
• Intended/Unintended consequences
• Performance Measurement
5. Problems of Managing Cultural
Policy
• Definition
• Causality
• Measurement
• Attribution
• Sectoral
6. Sector Specificity
• Governmental Action –
• Hands-On
• Arm’s-Length
• Disengaged
• Political Support – or the Lack of it
• Organisational Fragmentation; Geographic
Scale; Reactive; Lack of Definition
7. Explaining Instrumentality
• Exogenous Factors:
• Effects of Commodification
• Effects of State Change
• Endogenous Factors:
• Attachment Strategies
• Internal Change
• Policy Choice and Management
8. And the answer is …
• Instrumentality as conscious policy?
• Instrumentality as consequential effect?
• Managing the process
• Assessing the results
