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Showing how museum practices shed new light on literary form How and why do books deploy objects in order to narrate the past? To answer this question, Emma Bond sifts through collections of objects stored in boxes, drawers, baskets, and displayed on shelves in contemporary texts by authors such as Valeria Luiselli, Maaza Mengiste, Orhan Pamuk, and Olga Tokarczuk and interprets them using a framework of museum practices. These practices, which include collection, curation, conservation, and display, have helped to turn real-life museums into three-dimensional narrative spaces. Curating Worlds: Museum Practices in Contemporary Literature shows how we can use this same set of practices to shed light on literary form itself: how stories are created, shaped, and communicated. Harnessing museum practices as an innovative lens for critical interpretation, Bond provides a fresh theoretical framework to engage with the meanings of object collections in literature and to make sense of the lives, and afterlives, of things today.

Teaching Ancient Egypt in Museums: Pedagogies in Practice explores what best practices in museum pedagogy look like when working with ancient Egyptian material culture.The contributions within the volume reflect the breadth and collaborative nature of museum learning. They are written by Egyptologists, teachers, curators, museum educators, artists, and community partners working in a variety of institutions around the world—from public, children's, and university museums, to classrooms and the virtual environment—who bring a broad scope of expertise to the conversation and offer inspiration for tackling a diverse range of challenges. Contributors foreground their first-hand experiences, pedagogical justifications, and reflective teaching practices, offering practical examples of ethical and equitable teaching with ancient Egyptian artifacts.Teaching Ancient Egypt in Museums serves as a resource for teaching with Egyptian collections at any museum, and at any level. It will also be of great interest to academics and students who are engaged in the study of museums, ancient Egypt, anthropology, and education.

Focused on multiple-scenario planning method, Museum Resilience gets to the “how” for expanding inclusivity and decolonization efforts, as well as adapting in a time of visitation and financial challenges. Unique features of the book include explaining worldview differences, value-based planning techniques (adaptive and multiple-scenario), the specifics of expanding museum income through collaborations, and ways of developing learning programs that support cultural continuance. The author has field-tested these methods for 30 years (over 50 plans completed), blending her graduate degrees in Cultural Anthropology and Urban and Regional Planning to design methods for cross-cultural planning.Integral to the book are planning processes for museums to use with communities in addressing these issues. Each chapter contains an annotated “Further Readings” feature, useful for textbook readers. Another feature of the book is the integration of examples concerning potential roles museums can take in opening environmental awareness. The author is an experienced leader in culturally diverse issues, focusing on value-based planning and designing techniques that work across cultures.

The days when museums were dusty, stuffy institutions displaying their wealth and wisdom to a reverential public are over. Museums today are a cultural battleground. Who should decide what is put on display and how it is presented? Who gets to set the narrative? In this passionately argued book, Jon Sleigh maintains that museums must be for all people and inclusion must be at the heart of everything they do. But what does good inclusion look like in practice? Cleverly structured like a museum tour, Sleigh uses seven illustrative museum objects from seven very different museums to explore such wide-ranging issues as trust-building, representation, digital access, conflicting narratives, removal from display and restitution.

This book explores anthropological and global art collections as a catalyst, a medium, and an expression of relations. Relations—between and among objects and media, people, and material and immaterial contexts—define, configure, and potentially transform collection-related social and professional networks, discourses and practices, and increasingly museums and other collecting institutions themselves. The contributors argue that a focus on the—often contested—making and remaking of relations provides a unique conceptual entrypoint for understanding collections'—and ‘their'objects'and media's—complex histories, contemporary webs of interactions, and potential futures. The chapters examine the local, translocal, and transregional relations of collections with regard to their affective, aesthetic, performative, and socio-moral qualities and situate them in the larger geopolitical constellations of precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial settings. Together they investigate ongoing shifts in the relations of collections and collecting institutions by identifying alternative approaches to conceive of, and deal with, anthropological and global art collections, objects, and media in the future. The book is of interest to scholars from anthropology, global art history, museum studies, and heritage studies.

Flourishing in Museums presents the Flourishing Museum Framework, an interdisciplinary model for reflection and practice. Illustrated via a diversity of international examples, the framework demonstrates how museums can meaningfully address the many challenges facing the profession.Including contributions from a wide range of scholar-practitioners working across the arts, humanities, sciences, education, business, and mental health disciplines, the volume uses abundance-thinking and takes a strengths-based appreciative approach to museum purpose, function, and being. The book demonstrates that, even within the most difficult climates, abundance-oriented methods and perspectives can inspire and elicit flourishing in visitors, staff, and communities, thus positioning museums as places where people find meaningful and purposeful work and where visitors find satisfaction, meaning, inspiration, and motivation. Drawing from the disciplines of positive psychology, positive organizational scholarship, contemplative studies, and museum studies, the book is unified and organized into six thematic areas that comprise the Flourishing Museum Framework: courage, transformation, care, optimism, gratitude, and delight.Flourishing in Museums will be essential reading for academics and students working in the museum and heritage fields, as well as the cognate disciplines of arts management and creative industries. It will also be useful to practitioners working in museums and heritage sites around the world.

The Preparator's Handbook :A Practical Guide for Preparing and Installing Collection Objects is an invaluable resource for emerging museum professionals or anyone working in galleries and collections with little-to-no previous preparatory experience or training. This handbook explores, explains, and illustrates the basics for the preparation and installation professionals.- practical, step-by-step guides that outline museum-standard procedures for most types of collection objects, including works on paper, archival volumes, and historic artifacts.- templates and guides for presentation, preservation, and collection storage- illustrated inventories of standard and specialized tools, materials and hardware- the basics of lighting, audio, and video in installations.- unique case-studies from working professionals for a wide-range of objects and installations including examples from the Field Museum, the Corning Museum of Glass, and the Folger Shakespeare Library.- Over 50 illustrations and photographs that accompany the written text.This practical book is the first of its kind: a guide for novice or amateur collection and gallery professionals as well as an academic textbook for museum studies and fine art students.

Museums and Well-being outlines the historical development of well-being within museums and offers a critical engagement with this field from a museum studies perspective. The essential thesis of the book is that well-being is a collective action.The book utilises the Five Ways to Well-being as a model: Connect, Be Active, Keep Learning, Give and Take Notice. Each of these Ways are explored through a specific museum object illustrating the important role collections can play in museum well-being. The book considers how museum well-being, and the austerity project became entwined, and how the COVID-19 pandemic supercharged growth in this field. The book explores such diverse topics as walking, slow art, social capital, Virginia Woolf, body positivity, collective joy, identity, art therapy, yoga, Squid Game, Effective Altruism, mindfulness, gift exchange, the Preston model, the limits of data, sketching, photography, inclusive spaces, and workplace well-being. The book signposts a vast array of existing information, and offers a critical engagement with current practices. Museums and Well-being is aimed initially to students of museum studies programmes, it is also an ideal book for museum staff who need to add a well-being component to their existing programming; or to reconsider existing programming from the perspective of well-being.

Literaturausstellungen bieten zahlreiche Perspektiven für literarästhetische Erfahrungen im Raum. Literatur wird dabei nicht auf ihre Trägermedien reduziert, sondern als immaterieller Gegenstand betrachtet. Diesem Ansatz folgend untersucht Sebastian Bernhardt die didaktischen Potenziale von Ausstellungen, die Literatur mittels Szenografie in den Raum übertragen. Neben einer Systematisierung der Möglichkeiten solcher Übertragungen erschließt er die sich daraus für eine mediale Erweiterung des Literatur- und Medienunterrichts ergebenden Potenziale. Damit liefert er spezifische Einsichten in die genuin literarästhetischen Erfahrungen im Ausstellungsraum.

Les contraintes de l'impératif évènementiel sont inévitables. Elles se reflètent sur la production culturelle contemporaine et sur les musées. Mais qu'est-ce qu'un évènement en muséologie? Lorsque que l'évènementiel entre dans les musées d'art, comment cela influence-t-il les collections, la mise en récit de l'art qui se déploie jusque dans la présentation et la conception patrimoniale des œuvres? Le retour aux collections auquel nous assistons depuis quelques décennies donne lieu à de nouvelles pratiques muséales et curatoriales et confirme l'avènement d'un temps convulsif évènementiel qui vient ébranler le cours tranquille et le temps figé du récit canonique des collections dites « permanentes ». Réinventer la collection : l'art et le musée au temps de l'évènementiel est composé de cinq parties qui invitent à un déplacement de sens et d'idées autour des collections faisant écho aux formules dynamiques, interrogatives et inclusives que tendent à adopter les musées. Les recherches qui y sont publiées ont, pour la grande majorité, été menées dans le cadre des activités du groupe de recherche et de réflexion Collections et impératif évènementiel/The Convulsive Collections (CIÉCO), fondé en 2014. Les différents chapitres interrogent l'impact de l'évènementiel sur les collections ou analysent des stratégies muséales qui cherchent à valoriser les collections par les ressorts évènementiels. Cette réflexion, qui vient combler une importante lacune dans l'étude sur les collections, s'adresse à quiconque s'intéresse au patrimoine, aux musées, aux expositions, aux œuvres d'art, que ce soit dans la perspective de l'histoire de l'art, de la muséologie, des arts visuels, de l'architecture, de l'ethnographie ou de la sociologie.

Alte Meister, Instant-Nudelsuppen, virtuelle Umgebungen, aber auch umstrittene Bronzen – Objekte und Inszenierungen in Museen sind vielgestaltig. Diese Pluralität wird in diesem Band aus soziologischer Perspektive betrachtet. Ziel ist, Licht auf das Zusammenspiel von Ausstellungskonzepten, Inszenierungen und Interaktionen im Museum zu werfen. Fragen nach Machtverhältnissen stellen den roten Faden dar: Wie hat der Trend zu Erlebnisorientierung die Teilhabe von Publika verändert? Welche Scharnierfunktion erfüllen die Aufsichten im Kontext von Inklusionszielen, irritierten Deutungshoheiten und Ökonomisierungsprozessen? Inwiefern reproduziert und verändert das Museum gesellschaftliche Ungleichheitsverhältnisse? Empirische Einsichten und Felderfahrungen werden dafür in wissenschaftliche Diskurse und Museumsdebatten eingeordnet.

The Brain-Friendly Museum proposes an innovative approach to experiencing and enjoying the museum environment in new ways, based on the systematic application of cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Providing practical guidance on navigating and thinking about museums in different ways, the book is designed to help develop more fulfilling visitor experiences. It explores our cognitive processes and emotions, and how they can be used to engage with and enjoy the museum environment, regardless of the visitor's background, language, or culture. The book considers core cognitive processes, including memory, attention, and perception, and how they can successfully be applied to the museum environment, for example, in creating more effective displays. Using evidence-based examples throughout, the book advocates for a wellbeing approach improving visitor experience, and one that is grounded in research from psychology and neuroscience. This book is a must-read for all museum practitioners and psychologists interested in the relationship between cultural heritage, psychology, and neuroscience. It will also be of great interest to art therapists, neuroscientists, university students, museum stakeholders, and museum lovers.

Esta investigación tiene como finalidad estructurar un documento de carácter práctico donde los alumnos de diseño y comunicación visual y de diseño gráfico puedan consultar una guía de trabajo a seguir en la formulación del diseño y montaje de una ambientación museográfica, para esto se ha emprendido la tarea de organizar y conjuntar los recursos más importantes que se utilizan dependiendo de su modalidad (pequeña, mediana, grande, fija, itinerante, virtual, etcétera) considerando estrategias, técnicas, materiales y métodos que se utilizan durante el proceso de diseño que los diseñadores deben conocer para enfrentar retos de trabajo dentro de esta área de producción. Elaborar una guía metodológica que proporcione las pautas para cometer menos errores durante el proceso de diseño de ambientación facilitará, sin duda, la toma de decisiones que lleve a la correcta interpretación de argumentos, así como a una conceptualización más apegada a las necesidades de la exhibición conforme a la densidad objetual que se tenga en el proyecto de ambientación en turno.

With chapters written by a diverse set of practitioners from across the museum field and around the world, Storytelling in Museums explores the efficacy and ethics of storytelling in museums. The book shows how museums use personal, local, and specific stories to make visitors feel welcome while inspiring them to engage with new ideas and unfamiliar situations. At the same time, the book explores the responsibilities of museum practitioners toward the storytellers included in their narratives and how those responsibilities shift over time and manifest in different contexts. The book's eighteen chapters represent a conversation among a diverse set of professionals for whom storytelling connotes their daily museum practice. As educators, collectors, curators, designers, marketers, researchers, planners, and collaborators, the authors of this book consider the “real work” of storytelling from every angle. From the inclusion of personal stories in educational programs to the meta-narratives on display in exhibitions, this book balances practical examples with ethical considerations, placing the praxis of storytelling within the larger context of the 21st century museum. The book moves beyond advocacy for storytelling as an essential part of the museum's toolkit to explore the many ways in which museums use personal stories, and multiple storytelling techniques, to support the larger public narratives embedded in their missions. The contributors demonstrate how museums that emphasize storytelling from multiple angles can serve as a kind of counterpoint to our tendency to fixate on singular images of things we know little about. They encourage museums to both acknowledge that they cannot control the narrative and to embrace their power to contribute to it through the multivalent, multivocal stories they choose to share.

Experimental Museology scrutinizes innovative endeavours to transform museum interactions with the world. Analysing cutting-edge cases from around the globe, the volume demonstrates how museums can design, apply and assess new modes of audience engagement and participation.Written by an interdisciplinary group of researchers and research-led professionals, the book argues that museum transformations must be focused on conceptualizing and documenting the everyday challenges and choices facing museums, especially in relation to wider social, political and economic ramifications. In order to illuminate the complexity of these challenges, the volume is structured into three related key dimensions of museum practice - namely institutions, representations and users. Each chapter is based on a curatorial design proposed and performed in collaboration between university-based academics and a museum. Taken together, the chapters provide insights into a diversity of geographical contexts, fields and museums, thus building a comprehensive and reflexive repository of design practices and formative experiments that can help strengthen future museum research and design.Experimental Museology will be of great value to academics and students in the fields of museum, gallery and heritage studies, as well as architecture, design, communication and cultural studies. It will also be of interest to museum professionals and anyone else who is interested in learning more about experimentation and design as resources in museums.“The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.'

This collection of essays investigates some of the theories and concepts related to the burgeoning presence of dance and performance in the museum. This surge has led to significant revisions of the roles and functions that museums currently play in society. The authors provide key analyses on why and how museums are changing by looking into participatory practices and decolonisation processes, the shifting relationship with the visitor/spectator, the introduction of digital practices in collection making and museum curation, and the creation of increasingly complex documentation practices. The tasks designed by artists who are involved in the European project Dancing Museums. The Democracy of Beings (2018-21) respond to the essays by suggesting a series of body-mind practices that readers could perform between the various chapters to experience how theory may affect their bodies.

This collection of essays highlights the enduring significance of provenance and its implications for historians and art historians, as well as students and researchers engaged in museum studies. It also offers an opportunity to demonstrate its relevance to other fields of expertise, such as conservation, visual culture studies, aesthetics, authentication and connoisseurship versus technology as a means of establishing attributions and detecting forgeries.Provenance is still of vital importance to jurisdiction, whether it concerns property law or ownership. It also remains topical because of the ongoing debates over looted art in the 1930s and 1940s and the illicit trade in antiquities conducted from Iraq and Syria by terrorist groups.

Wenn wir ein Museum betreten, erwarten wir, dass die präsentierten Exponate und Informationen »wahr«, »echt«, »auratisch« oder zumindest »authentisch« sind. Was aber passiert, wenn diese Prinzipien der Authentizität unterlaufen werden und die Fiktion Einzug ins Museum erhält? Anna Quednau untersucht Museen an der Schnittstelle zur Literatur und literarische Texte, die Strategien des Ausstellens und Zeigens inkorporieren. Als innovative Hybridformen von Literatur und Ausstellung sind diese »Museen des Imaginären« Teil einer alternativen Museumslandschaft und ermöglichen metareflexive Zugänge zum Ausstellen, Zeigen und auch zum Erzählen.

Museum Innovation encourages museums to critically reflect upon current practices and adopt new approaches to their civic responsibilities. Arguing that museums have a moral duty to perform, the book shows how social innovation can make them more equitable, relevant and impactful institutions. Including contributions from a diverse group of international scholars, practitioners and researchers, the book investigates the innovative approaches museums are taking to address contemporary social issues. The volume focuses on the concept of social innovation and individual chapters address a range of crucial issues, such as climate change; the COVID-19 pandemic; diversity and inclusion; the travel ban; and the repatriation of museum collections. Exploring the impact that organizational structures have on museums'aspirations to act as agents for social change, the book also unpacks how museums can establish sustainable relationships with minority communities. Proposing steps that museums can take to affirm their relevance as viable community partners, the book breaks down silos and connects ideas across different areas of museum work. Museum Innovation explores the role of contemporary museums in society. It is essential reading for academics, students and practitioners working in the museum and heritage studies field. The book's interdisciplinary nature makes it also an interesting read for those working in business studies, digital humanities, visual culture, arts administration and political science fields.

»Fragil« nennen wir zerbrechliches Material ebenso wie verletzliche gesellschaftliche Konstitutionen. Das Fragile oszilliert dabei zwischen affirmativen Bewertungen und verunsichernden Konnotationen. Nathalie Bäschlin stellt die These auf, dass sich das Fragile zu einer eigenen Wertekategorie entwickelt hat, die unseren Blick auf die Kunst und die Formulierung des Bewahrungsauftrags nachhaltig beeinflusst. Sie fragt nach dem historischen Kontext, den Motivationen, die unsere Aufmerksamkeit auf das Fragile gelenkt haben, und wie die Auseinandersetzung mit der Fragilität die Praxis und den Diskurs des musealen Bewahrens durchdringt.

1970 erschien »Das Museum der Zukunft. 43 Beiträge zur Diskussion über die Zukunft des Museums« mit Vorstellungen zur erwarteten und erwünschten Entwicklung dieser Institution. 50 Jahre danach ist es Zeit für eine Revision: 43 neue Beiträge internationaler Autor•innen aus der Museumspraxis verschiedener Sparten, aus Theorie, Vermittlung, Kunst und Architektur entwerfen konkrete Visionen eines Museums der Zukunft: zuversichtlich und zweifelnd, kritisch, klar positioniert und subjektiv. So entsteht eine vielstimmige Sammlung, die Trends und Themen des aktuellen kritischen Museumsdiskurses aufnimmt und zugleich Anstöße für ein couragiertes Darüberhinaus gibt.

This edited collection explores a subject of great potential for both art historians and museologists – that of the nature of the specimen and how it might be reinterpreted. Through its cross-disciplinary contributions, written by a team of art historians, artists, poets, anthropologists, critics and curators, this book looks at how artistic encounters in museums, ranging from anatomy museums to contemporary cabinets of curiosity, can provoke new modes of thinking about art, science and curating. Museological literature in the past focused on artefacts or objects; this is an original contribution to the field and offers new readings of old issues, inspiring new understandings of the relationships between art, science and curating. Brings together international expertise from art practitioners, historians, creative writers and theorists in France, the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Contributions from creative practitioners draw upon their own experience of producing artworks in response to specific scientific collections while historians, anthropologists, critics and writers examine how museums stimulate, incite and otherwise inspire artistic awareness of science and its specimens. One of the most important contributions this book will make is drawing together several threads of research and practice to encourage interdisciplinary discussion. It provides new ways of thinking about the relationships between art, science, museums and their objects. It concentrates on the ways in which scientific collections kindle novel aesthetic strategies and inspire new scholarly interpretations of art, science, curating and epistemology. In so doing it will make a considerable contribution to the fields of art writing, creative practice, art theory, the history of science and curating. This book will appeal to academics, researchers, undergraduates and postgraduates studying fine art, curating, museology, art history, the history of science, creative writing; visual artists, curators, and other creative practitioners. Also of interest to museum audiences. Reading list potential.

Triumphs and challenges in contemporary museology Held on the occasion of Louvre Abu Dhabi's first anniversary, the symposium Worlds in a Museum addressed the topic of museums in the era of globalisation, exploring contemporary museology and the preservation and presentation of culture within the context of changing societies. Departing from the historical museum structure inherited from the Enlightenment, leading experts from art, cultural, and academic institutions explore present-day achievements and challenges in the study, display and interpretation of art, history, and artefacts. How are “global” and “local” objects and narratives balanced – particularly in consideration of diverse audiences? How do we foster perspective and multiculturalism while addressing politicised notions of centre and periphery? As they abandon classical canons and categories, how are museums and cultural entities redefining themselves beyond predefined concepts of geography and history? This collection of essays arises from the symposium Worlds in a Museum organised by Louvre Abu Dhabi and École du Louvre. Contributors: H.E. Shaikha Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa (Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities), Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak (Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi), Guilhem André (Louvre Abu Dhabi), Claire Barbillon (École du Louvre), Nathalie Bondil (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts), James Cuno (J. Paul Getty Trust), Noëmi Daucé (Louvre Abu Dhabi), Hartwig Fischer (British Museum), Cecilia Hurley (Neuchâtel University / École du Louvre), Rose-Marie Herda Mousseaux (Louvre Abu Dhabi), Hervé Inglebert (Paris-Nanterre University), Henry Kim (Aga Khan Museum), Anne-Marie Maïla-Afeiche (The National Museum of Beirut), François-René Martin (Ecole du Louvre / Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris), Jean-Luc Martinez (Louvre Museum), Sophie Mouquin (University of Lille / École du Louvre), Souraya Noujaim (Louvre Abu Dhabi), Martin Pitts (University of Exeter), Manuel Rabaté (Louvre Abu Dhabi), Sylvie Ramond (Museums of Fine Arts and Contemporary Arts Lyon), Kennie Ting (Asian Civilisations Museum)

Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols enters a dialogue about museums'responsibility for the curation of their collections into an infinite future while also tackling contentious issues of repatriation and digital access to collections. Bringing into focus a number of key debates centred on ethnographic collections and their relationship with source communities, Morphy considers the value material objects have to different ‘local'communities – the museum and the source community – and the value-creation processes with which they are entangled. The focus on values and value brings the issue of repatriation and access into a dialogue between the two locals, questioning who has access to collections and whose values are taken into consideration. Placing the museum itself firmly at the centre of the debate, Morphy posits that museums constitute a kind of ‘local'embedded in a trajectory of value. Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols challenges aspects of postcolonial theory that position museums in the past by presenting an argument that places relationships with communities as central to the future of museums. This makes the book essential reading for academics and students working in the fields of museum and heritage studies, anthropology, archaeology, Indigenous studies, cultural studies, and history.

El museo se ha convertido en una potente metáfora social. Lejanos ya los tiempos en que sus funciones eminentemente conservadoras y divulgativas parecían situarlo al margen de los acelerados cambios que atravesaban al resto de instituciones culturales, el museo se ve hoy abocado a reinterpretar, y en ocasiones incluso a protagonizar, todos los signos característicos de nuestra época.El reconocimiento del papel polémico del museo en la construcción patrimonial de las memorias nacionales dentro del espacio político europeo; su acomodación a los nuevos territorios híbridos en que se distribuyen los vínculos sociales, siempre a caballo de lo físico, lo digital y lo virtual; o las tensiones derivadas de su conversión en el centro de complejos procesos de regeneración urbana o de turistificación a escala global, son tan solo algunos de los aspectos que definen los retos que ha de afrontar la más reciente gestión museística.Sin embargo, hay una perspectiva desde la cual no suelen leerse dichos retos: la perspectiva del público. La cada vez más extendida necesidad de “colocar al público en el centro” de la gestión del museo, choca en ocasiones contra inercias políticas, administrativas, profesionales y artísticas, muy consolidadas. El público del museo es una institución que tiene su propia historia: a él se le han reconocido poderes, funciones y experiencias que lo han cualificado de modos muy diversos a lo largo del tiempo. No puede existir una correcta comprensión del museo sin una previa comprensión de sus públicos, con su historia y a través de todas sus transformaciones.Este objetivo solo puede atenderse desde una mirada multidisciplinar, como la que ofrece este libro: expertos de la filosofía del arte, la gestión de la cultura, la psicología social o la mediación educativa coinciden en este volumen, acercándose de un modo original al museo contemporáneo, en tanto síntoma de nuestra realidad social, y poniendo al público en el centro de sus análisis. Fernando Bayón. Doctor en Filosofía. Profesor de Filosofía Moderna y Director del Instituto de Estudios de Ocio de la Universidad de Deusto. Autor de los libros: “La prohibición del amor. Sujeto, cultura y forma artística en Thomas Mann” y “Filosofía y Leyenda. Variaciones sobre la última modernidad (de Tolstói a Musil), ambos en Anthropos.Jaime Cuenca. Doctor en Filosofía. Investigador del Instituto de Estudios de Ocio y Director del curso Experto en Estrategia de Públicos de la Universidad de Deusto. Es investigador principal, junto con Fernando Bayón, del proyecto de Excelencia PUBLICUM (Públicos en transformación) financiado por el MINECO. Es autor, entre otros, del libro: “Peter Pan disecado. Mutaciones políticas de la edad” (Consonni, 2013).

Partizipation gehört zu den langlebigen Trends im Museum. Seitdem in den 1970er Jahren die Forderung nach einer sozial und politisch engagierten Museumspraxis laut wurde, entwickelte sich der Diskurs weltweit. In verschiedenen Sprachregionen entstanden unterschiedliche »Schulen« und Traditionen: die Sociomuseology/Social Museology, New Museology, die Nouvelle muséologie oder Écomuséologie. Dieser Band versammelt Vertreter•innen dieser Museumstraditionen und zeichnet ihre unterschiedlichen Entwicklungen nach. Sie alle teilen die Vorstellung einer gesellschaftspolitisch engagierten Museumspraxis, für die Partizipation eine grundlegende Bedeutung hat.

Exhibitions for Social Justice assesses the state of curatorial work for social justice in the Americas and Europe today. Analyzing best practices and new curatorial work to support all those working on exhibitions, Gonzales expounds curatorial practices that lie at the nexus of contemporary museology and neurology. From sharing authority, to inspiring action and building solidarity, the book demonstrates how curators can make the most of visitors'physical and mental experience of exhibitions.Drawing on ethnographic and archival work at over twenty institutions with nearly eighty museum professionals, as well as scholarship in the public humanities, visual culture, cultural studies, memory studies, and brain science, this project steps back from the detailed institutional histories of how exhibitions come to be. Instead, it builds a set of curatorial practices by examining the work behind the finished product in the gallery. Demonstrating that museums have the power to help our society become more hospitable, equitable, and sustainable, Exhibitions for Social Justice will be of interest to scholars and students of museum and heritage studies, gallery studies, arts and heritage management, and politics. It will also be valuable reading for museum professionals and anyone else working with exhibitions who is looking for guidance on how to ensure their work attains maximum impact.

This issue of the journal and its sister (14.03) bring together sixteen contributions from scholars from a variety of perspectives around the topic of Women & Collections. As noted in the introduction to 14.03, the articles present the work of independent scholars, researchers, and practitioners alongside those situated in academy as well as others engaged in work at collecting institutions. Contributors hail from the United States, England, Wales, Italy, and Egypt, thereby bringing together the work from three continents.