Well, it depends on the country I guess. For example, in Denmark one of the biggest challenge is within the administrative roles. This is due to new reforms of budget cuts to which the new strategy is to centralize many museums under one main one (usually 10 to 15 museums under one). This has caused many museums administrator their jobs and at the same time has brought a huge challenge for the central administrator as well. So as one can imagine, the quality of services of those museum under the main one are risking to either be neglected or be lack down, and this hasn't been a good experience for the audience at all. However, in Colombia, the challenges springs from misuse of the economic resources that are designated for this matter. For instance, there are many law cases of corruption and misuse of among other, the economical resource for culture, art and museums in the actual government of San Andres, Colombia.

I hope that has helped answer your question.

Museums are publicly oriented. The ability to do science is limited. I am from Russia (Kirov)

Depends on many factors. In context of museums in most of the Asian countries including India, proper maintenance of the collections is an issue. Maintenance also depends on the financial supports and engagement of properly trained stuffs. The level of challenges will change along with the type of museum one is dealing with. The challenges faced by an art museum will be different from a science museum. State of the art evolution of museums along with the advancement of technologies is absolutely needed to target a new generation of audiences.

(Hope this will help you.)

A special issue is the relationship with local communities, some musuems are not able or are not in condition to offer programs and activities that involves actively the people around

Thank you very much for your prompt reply and contribution Ms. Daisy Eliana Daril McLean, Michael Uebel, Natalia Krivosheina, Dipanjan Munshi, Carla Benelli.

Can you throw some light over the Limitations/Problems/Difficulties in maintaining the artifacts and their condition in museums. Are you completely satisfied with the way they are being preserved or monitored. Kindly elaborate.

Thanks !

Чем ближе к центру, тем более высокий уровень хранения и контроля. Чем более провинциальный музей, тем примитивней хранение и учет. Недавно я была в милом далеком музее, в котором только 1 сотрудник, который ведет ВСЮ работу. Я работала в музее 12 лет, много езжу и знаю ситуацию изнутри.

Thank you Natalia Krivosheina for the further inputs. It will definitely help me a lot.

Anybody has any other views or opinion or observation ? Kindly share. Thanks again.

Well, one of the biggest limitations in these times is lack of economical support due to budget cuts in public administration. And one of the challenge that comes out of this is that museums are almost forced to increase their audience and making themselves 'more relevant' for the community, and at the same time they get caught up in the need to produce more to have their own economic support at hand. However, there are two main issues with museums becoming more economical independent. The first problem occurs when there isn't enough human resource to produce and perform quality exhibitions. The second problem is that in many communities traditionally people are used to have cheap products and free service at their local museum, as they have learned that 'culture is a right'. This makes it difficult to suddenly have more expensive products and paid services. Well, it isn't easy to change what have been established traditionally. In my opinion this is a very drastic change that need to be taken into consideration with high analytical approach. As these kind of governmental solutions can destroys people trust and commitment in the society.

Lack of revenue for maintenance is a big issue.

a large part of these problems may also relate to being subject to non specialist supervision. Many UK museums are having to fight for their storage space due to the perception that museums don't need it because they display their collections. This of course adds to the difficulties mentioned above of preserving the collections since it is precisely when its on display that it is most vulnerable to damage, as if we could move everything into galleries for public display without building much bigger museums.

In France, the problems I faced were related with the way people conceive the protection of the artworks vs. the building it is shown in. For example, at the Musée de la Vie romantique (a really small municipal museum in a patrimonial house in Paris) the house can't be modified to suit the requirements for preventive conservation because it is patrimonial (you have to file a request to the Architecte de France - refused twice in this case). So, just because the house is protected we can't correctly protect the artworks it hosts ! It is the snake biting its own tail !

Also, many workers told me : if the artworks survived the last 150 years without change in this same house, why would we change their environnement by controlling it ? It is food for thought, but also a conservator's nightmare.

"ICOM Nord" (the six ICOM committees of Scandinavia) and ICOM Germany organised a joint conference "Difficult Issues", September 2017 in Helsingborg (Sweden), quite fitting to your question. The conference documentation will be published in 2019 as an e-book; before that, you may get some impressions by the website: http://www.icom-helsingborg-2017.org/conference/

Museums in the UK are currently facing a Cultural Heritage crisis. Many of the artefacts in our museu and National collections are linked to a "difficult" past in Colonialismand no longer reflect the views of the current audience or value the beliefs and cultural practices of indigenous peoples - this is in direct opposi to UNESCO guidelines on respect and conservation of indigenous cultural artefacts, practices or values both tangible and intangible.

I've heard that comment before Lucy. To me it reflects one of the biggest problems facing UK museums-too much outside interference. Working in a few different museums has shown me that people are still interested in the old style collections. However, the museums are being told by external parties promoting their own agendas to change. The problem was summed up by the American medievalist Bernard Bachrach, the general public are still very interested in the spectacular/horrible (Terry Deary's works anyone)/violent aspects. However, museums are being pressurised into over emphasising the marginalised of history, usually by creating fictitious narratives and that's what the majority of current audiences do not find interesting.

If UNESCO seeks to protect the culture of people who have had their stories or history maginanalised then museums should reflect that history. Many UK museums are full of artefacts which have effectively been looted during colonialism and the narrative is about the object and a western interpretation of its value. Rarely is there a curation of the origin.

The agendas which are being addressed now reflect our mutual respect for differing cultures. For example the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre made several requests from the 1980's onwards for the return of 17 human remains from the Natural History Museum. The case was ultimately settled by mediation and the remains repatriated in May 2007. This case involved a change in U.K. Law (Human Tissue Act)

I firmly believe that we should treat every culture with decency and respect. This leads to greater understanding and tolerance and in cases relating to the Middle East can even contribute to dissuading terrorist activity.

Thank you very much Daisy Eliana Daril McLean , Emmanuel Vijayanand Murray, Timothy Edward Jones, Julie Rose, Markus Walz, Lucy Middleton, Timothy Edward Jones for your kind support in participating the query and providing your sincere opinion.

Thanks again !!

Indrajeet Bhattacherya, you are very welcome!