Professional of the social museology, skills, abilities and future for their involvement in territorial development

Abstract

In the seventies and eighties decades of the last century there were intense debates within the International Council of Museums (ICOM), around the discipline who works with the ethical and moral sense of the museums: the Museum Studies. A logical phase that had to happen, given the social, cultural and economic moment was happening the global society.
That Intellectual turmoil affected not only the theory of this field of knowledge, but also influenced deeper into the work of museum professionals and heritage. The traditional functions of conservation and dissemination began to be under the dictates of the social function of the museum, and its "usefulness" for and with society. Forty years later, the profession has remained divided, in very general terms, between those who work in a museum called traditional and those who practice in the community museology. This article aims to reflect on the skills and abilities of the second group, from a context: Social Museology in Spain; and an initiative: The Ponte-Ecomuséu in Asturias.