‘작은 정부’의 행정개혁과 미술관의 공공성: 21세기 일본 미술관정책의 재검토

In the period of rapid economic growth, there were the broad booming of establishing art museums throughout the nation in Japan. But after the collapse of bubble economy, those art museums were regarded as the symbolic existence of administrative failure, and become the important target of the public administrative reforms of ‘small government.’ Considering this background, I focused on the art museum policies in Japan and argued the relationship between the public administrative reforms and the cultural & arts policies of Japanese government.
In this literature, first of all, I reexamined how the public administrative reforms of ‘small government’ exerted the pressure of changes on art museums.
And then, I inspected that the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Agency for Cultural Affairs did systematize the cultural & arts policies and enforced the art museum policies on the ground of principle of ‘the publicness of art museum’ against the public administrative reforms.
Finally, examining that those governmental departments required the reforms of the independent administrative institutions under the slogan of ‘the establishment of state on the basis of culture & arts’ and challenged the public administrative reforms, I intended to explain the aspect that the public administrative reforms were practically used as the administrative instruments for the enforcement and expansion of cultural & arts policies in Japan.