Call for papers: Romanian Journal for Museums No. 1/2025

Call for papers: The Romanian Journal for Museums no. 1/2025

Deadline: June 1^st, 2025

Articles should be sent to: revistamuzeelor@culturadata.ro

Main theme: Museums and Tourism: Taking up the Challenge?

Museums are a fundamental resource in tourism, providing direct, documented and curated access to authentic cultural heritage. They thus contribute to enhancing the value of the tourist experience through a distinctive form of cultural uniqueness and representativeness. Tourism, on the other hand, represents an opportunity for museums to raise their profile, both individually and as part of tourist destinations with identities shaped by the convergence of several cultural, natural or leisure attractions.
Museums are sustainable and resilient organizations, and building a touristic offer centered on their presence and activity in the territory represents a valuable opportunity to anchor tourism products, diminishing the volatility characteristic of the consumption and interest trends specific to this industry.
We aim to highlight how well prepared museums are to meet the challenges of a dynamic tourism, while respecting their cultural mission and promoting the authentic resources and values of their communities. Therefore, this issue of the Journal follows relevant lines of analysis including:

• Developing museum experiences tailored to the diversified expectations of national and international tourists;
• Creating a strong presence in the media and information hubs accessed by visitors;
• Building strategic partnerships between museums, authorities and tour operators to contribute to sustainable local development.

We invite you to reflect on the multiple dimensions in which the relationship between museums and tourism is built, either by presenting the results of your own research or by presenting relevant case studies that highlight both the successes and the difficulties of this joining of interests.
We also look forward to receiving your proposals for articles that fit into the Journal’s recurring thematic sections, the review sections, the section dedicated to opinion articles or the newly-introduced section dedicated to project reports.

Recurring themes:  

The research articles gathered in this section will address one of the themes:

1. Collection, record keeping, documentation and research
2. Preservation and restoration
3. Interpretation and communication of the museum heritage (curatorship, mobility of collections, museum aesthetics, etc.)
4. Museum marketing
5. Museums and new technologies (digitalisation, digitisation, equipment, tools, new techniques, etc.)
6. Organisational development and sustainability (management, funding, etc.)
7. Ethics, history and museum theory
8. Museums and the community / society
9. Museum statistics

Reviews:

1. Publication reviews: texts of 2000-2500 words that discuss the latest books published in the museum field. The reviews aim to inform the community of museum professionals, experts and researchers about the quality, purpose, and arguments of a book and explain how it relates to the current literature. For details, see the Editing Guide, p.6.
2. Exhibition reviews: authors are invited to critically describe an exhibition or a set of related exhibitions, other than those organised by the author / the institution to which they are affiliated. The contributions should be at most 3000 words long, using a critical, objective and independent analysis, supported by relevant images. Moreover, they should offer perspectives that would advance the general practice, irrespective of the readers’ ability to access the exhibition. For details, please see the Editing Guide, p.7.

Opinion Articles:

This section invites authors to draft or launch discussion topics through original personal contributions of about 2000-2500 words. These may be related to the main theme or one / more of the recurring themes and present the author’s critical viewpoint on various topics in the field of museums, – existing problems, fundamental concepts or prevailing notions on a particular topic. The texts may also advance and support a new hypothesis or discuss the implications of a newly implemented innovation. The contributions expected in this section are based on a constructive, well-documented critique, with logical and objective arguments that can be supported by scientific evidence.

Project Reports

The project reports section will contain texts of maximum 3000 words that summarize and present results relevant to the museum field, obtained within projects carried out with the support of external or national grant funding programs. These texts will aim at presenting concrete achievements reached through the projects: guidelines, good practice examples, innovative approaches, methodologies, databases or other types of tangible or intangible resources that have a (potentially) significant impact on the development of the museum field. Articles may make direct reference through links to additional documentary resources.
Texts for this section can only be submitted by authors who have directly participated in the project and will be evaluated by the editorial team.

Rules of drafting

The editorial office of the Romanian Journal for Museums encourages authors to explore the potential of the chosen themes in an original manner and to respect the editorial guidelines and the principles of academic ethics.

Assessment

As usual, the articles will be subject to an objective and impartial double blind peer-review evaluation and selection process.

The Romanian Journal for Museums is indexed in international databases such as CEEOL and EBSCO.

https://doi.org/10.61789/rm