Museums and Heritage Management are two fields that focus on the governing institution's sustainable administration, preservation, research, and communication of heritage. Museums, however, have the tendency to turn to the level of discussion on acclimatized institutions. Heritage management encompasses the “white cube” museum institution, but incorporates all levels of institutions that conduct the functions of administration, preservation, research, and communication of heritage. Ecomuseums are one kind of institution that is a non-traditional type of museum institution. This kind of museum is also more inclusive in community involvement. In order to “think outside the museum box,” museum discussions should be more comprehensive of different kinds of heritage institutions that perform those functions. This paper examines a different kind of heritage institution as a case study laboratory ecomuseum, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
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