Abstract:  Tony Bennett, a famous representative of contemporary cultural studies, is the first who has explored the cultural politics of museum from the perspective of governmentality. Based on his research into cultural politics of museum in theory and practice, Bennett has an extraordinary understanding and pioneering innovation of the attributes of powers, modes of operation in a museum and its social function, and has made due contributions. His research provides valuable theoretical and practical references for museum studies in the perspective of contemporary cultural criticism. Bennett′s cultural politics of museum has become one of the basic paradigms of contemporary museum research and is producing the worldwide influence.
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Key words:  Tony Bennett, governmentality;, museum, cultural institute, power