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1st Edition

Cultural Philanthropy and Entrepreneurship

Edited By Annick Schramme, Ulrike Müller, Nathalie Verboven, Laura D'hoore Copyright 2025
190 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The continuing pressure on the funding of arts and culture across Europe is forcing cultural organisations to rethink their traditional ways of working. This book examines how an entrepreneurial cultural organisation can generate a form of cultural philanthropy as a viable source of alternative funding. The authors in the book address issues that include how to build trust and the language... Read more

Introduction

Annick Schramme & Nathalie Verboven 

Part 1: Philanthropy and cultural entrepreneurship 

1: The Anxiety of Asking: Entrepreneurial and Patronage Practices in the Creative Sector

Helleke van den Braber 

2: A Value Based Approach to Philanthropy: How to Do Right By Contributing

Arjo Klamer 

3: What a Girl Wants, What Culture Needs: Exploring Women’s Motivations to Give to the Dutch Cultural Sector

Janneke Wienen 

Part 2: Tax incentives and Philanthropy 

4: Tax Incentives for Cultural Entrepreneurship

Sigrid Hemels 

5: Art Collections: Boon or Curse for Philanthropic Opportunities in Belgium?

Oliver Lenaerts 

6: Are Private Art Loans Philanthropic? Private Art Collectors as a Key Element in the Collection Management Policy of Public Museums

Laura D’hoore 

Part 3: Philantropy and museums from an historical perspective: the case of Belgium 

7: Private Collectors and Public Museums: Historical Perspectives on a Complex Relationship, Nineteenth Century to Today

Ulrike Müller 

8: Locally Anchored? The Antwerp Art World and the Modern Art Collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts

Herwig Todts 

Appendices: Interviews with cases 

Case 1: Middelheim museum

Sara Weyns 

Case 2: Préhistomuseum

Fernand Collin 

Case 3 : Musée de la Photographie

Selin Eskin 

Case 4: From Maecenas to The Giving Pledge

Wim Pijbes 

Case 5: Introdans

Marieke van ’t Hoff 

Case 6: Flagey

Olivier Thuysbaert

Biography

Annick Schramme is a Professor and Academic Director of the Master of Cultural Management and a postgraduate program on Responsible Fashion at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Ulrike Müller is an Assistant Professor in Heritage Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.

Nathalie Verboven is a Researcher and Teaching Assistant in Cultural Management and the Summer School on Responsible Fashion Management at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Laura D’hoore is a Researcher and Teaching Assistant in Cultural Management at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

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