xii Authors
Silvilene De Barros Ribeiro Morais, PhD in Museology and Heritage from Universidade Federal do Estado do
Rio de Janeiro (PPG-PMUS UNIRIO-MAST), holds a Master’s in Education from the Faculty of Education
of Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, and a Bachelor of Arts in Museology from Universidade
Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). She is a researcher with articles published, nationally and
internationally, on the themes of inclusion, interculturality, accessibility, diversity and education in museums.
Hugues de Varine is a former director of ICOM (1965–1974) and a consultant in local and community develop-
ment. His works include, among others, La Culture des autres (Seuil, 1976), L’initiative communautaire (Presses
Universitaires de Lyon, ‘Museologia’, 1991), Les racines du futur: Le patrimoine au service du développement
local (ASDIC, 2005) and L’écomusée, singulier et pluriel (L’Harmattan, 2017).
Bernard Deloche is Professor Emeritus at Jean-Moulin University (Lyon 3), where he taught Philosophy of Art and
Museology for nearly 30 years. He is the author of several works on museums and museology, including Mu-
seologica: Contradictions et logique du musée (Institut Interdisciplinaire d’Études Épistémologiques – J. Vrin,
1985) and Le musée virtuel (PUF, 2001).
France Desmarais is a museum director with over 20 years of international experience in the development, manage-
ment, protection and promotion of cultural heritage and museums. From 2010 to 2018, she was the Director of
Programmes at the International Council of Museums (ICOM). In that role, she created an International Ob-
servatory on Illicit Traffic in Cultural Goods and edited the volume Countering Illicit Traffic in Cultural Goods:
The Global Challenge of Protecting the World’s Heritage (ICOM, 2015).
André Desvallées is Honorary General Conservator of Heritage (Musées de France). He assisted Georges Henri
Rivière in designing the National Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions in Paris and its exhibitions, and also
taught museology at the École du Louvre.
Lynn D. Dierking is Principal Researcher, Institute for Learning Innovation and Professor Emeritus, Free-Choice
Learning, Oregon State University. Her research focuses on out-of-school learning with youth and families (in
museums and home contexts), particularly in low-income communities. She just completed a decade-long study
supporting youths’ interest and participation in science using an ecosystem approach. She has received multiple
awards, has written/co-written numerous books, chapters and articles, and serves on the Editorial Boards of the
Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship and Connected Science Learning.
Jan Dolák is an Associate Professor at Comenius University in Bratislava, specialised in theoretical museology,
theory of communication, collection management and museum management and marketing. He is the previous
UNESCO Chair of Museology and World Heritage at Masaryk University in Brno, and the author of several
monographs and more than 100 articles. He is a member of editorial boards of scientific journals, a previous
member of the ICOFOM board (also Vice President) and a former president of the Czech Association of Mu-
seums and Galleries.
Eric Dorfman, PhD, is the Director and CEO of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, an Adjunct
Professor at NCSU in Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, and a member of the Executive Board of the
International Council of Museums. Eric is the author of several popular books on New Zealand natural history
and climate change, as well as scholarly papers on museum education, public programming, Egyptology and the
ecology of wetland birds. His most recent book is The Future of Natural History Museums (Routledge 2018).
Colette Dufresne-Tassé, D.Ph. (Ps) (Doctorate in Psychology) and D.ès Lettres (Doctorate in Sociology), directed
the Master’s degree programme in Museology at the University of Montreal and is currently the Head of the
International Research Group on Museum and Adult Education. She is the former Chair of the International
Committee for Education and Cultural Action of the International Council of Museums (ICOM CECA) and
is currently a delegate for research. She has published over a dozen books and hundreds of articles.
Jacqueline Eidelman is the Curator General of Heritage for the French Ministry of Culture. Since 2021, she has co-
ordinated the museum section of France’s future Terrorism Museum and Memorial (currently in development).
A sociology research fellow with the National Scientific Research Committee (CNRS, 1980–2009), she then
joined the Ministry of Culture, where she headed up the Department for Audience Policy with the Directorate