Abstract The Museum of the City of New York's new award‐winning permanent exhibition, New York at Its Core (2016), devotes its largest space, the Future City Lab, to a consideration of New York City's present and future. Centred around five key challenges that face New York in the 21st century, it confronts the inherently contested nature of contemporary events through a variety of exhibition techniques. The article positions the Future City Lab as part of a larger commitment from to connecting past, present, and future and to serving as a neutral forum for learning and debate, and further analyses the meaning of being a neutral forum through a variety of case studies from the museum's current and recent exhibitions.

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面对纽约的现在和未来

摘要 纽约市博物馆新的屡获殊荣的常设展览“纽约在其核心”（2016 年）将其最大的空间——未来城市实验室，用于思考纽约市的现在和未来。围绕着纽约在 21 世纪面临的五个关键挑战，它通过各种展览技术来应对当代事件固有的竞争性质。文章将未来城市实验室定位为连接过去、现在和未来的更大承诺的一部分，并作为学习和辩论的中立论坛，并通过各种案例研究进一步分析了作为中立论坛的意义来自博物馆当前和最近的展览。