Abstract Most museums claim to foster the democratisation of their collections through top-down educational programmes. However, it is possible to challenge this perspective and, instead, encourage self-empowerment in lieu of imitation, hosting, and fostering cultural contributions offered by different communities that cultivate independent paths toward creating identities and institutional recognition. Although ‘discrimination’ seems to be a constitutive feature of museums, in that their entire structure is based on exclusion/inclusion processes at multiple levels, their structure offers unlimited possibilities to enact different approaches. If we consider museums as hypertexts that enable continuous re-readings, we can adopt them as generative spaces for critical and innovative practices. Several events that took place at the Modern Art Museum of Bologna (MAMbo) over the past decade show different approaches to tackling discrimination in museums. Each offered a range of reflections and activities concerning specific topics: the audience of sightless people in contemporary art museums (Collezioni mai viste, 2008), women’s art (Autoritratti, 2013 ), and gender representations (Performing Gender, 2015). Each event was developed as a research action project and carried out by groups strongly committed to contemporary art, respectively representing communities of sightless people, women, and LGBTQI+. Framing specificity as a tool for more diverse forms of representation, museums might question their own history, collections, practices and contexts, cooperating with existing communities representing cultural diversity to foster new narratives and enable the creation of new sources for different discourses and histories to be told.

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博物馆内的酷儿自我表现

摘要 大多数博物馆声称通过自上而下的教育计划促进其藏品的民主化。然而，有可能挑战这种观点，而是鼓励自我赋权，而不是模仿、托管和培养不同社区提供的文化贡献，这些社区为创造身份和制度认可开辟了独立的道路。尽管“歧视”似乎是博物馆的一个基本特征，因为它们的整个结构基于多个层次的排斥/包容过程，但它们的结构提供了制定不同方法的无限可能性。如果我们将博物馆视为能够持续重读的超文本，我们就可以将它们作为批判性和创新性实践的生成空间。过去十年在博洛尼亚现代艺术博物馆 (MAMbo) 举办的几场活动展示了解决博物馆歧视问题的不同方法。每个人都提供了一系列关于特定主题的反思和活动：当代艺术博物馆中盲人的观众（Collezioni mai viste，2008）、女性艺术（Autoritratti，2013）和性别表征（Performing Gender，2015）。每个活动都是作为一个研究行动项目开发的，由坚定地致力于当代艺术的团体开展，分别代表失明者、女性和 LGBTQI+ 社区。将特殊性作为更多样化表现形式的工具，博物馆可能会质疑自己的历史、收藏、实践和背景，