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Symbiotic Museums: An Interdisciplinary Challenge Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Nezka Pfeifer, Rogerio Satil
Published in Museum International (Vol. 75, No. 1-4, 2023)
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Exhibiting Leadership: A Proven Approach to Ambitious and Effective Action on Sustainability and Climate Change by Australian Museums Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Andrea Spencer-Cooke, Jenny Newell, Carmel Reyes, Zehra Ahmed
Published in Museum International (Vol. 75, No. 1-4, 2023)
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Researching and Developing Bio-based Materials for the Transport, Conservation and Exhibition of Museum Collections: A Case Study from France Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Caroline Biro
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Cultural Sustainability and Social Inclusion: A Case Study of Contemporary Art Museums in Hungary Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Zsuzsanna Fehér, Melanie Kay Smith, Katalin Ásványi
Published in Museum International (Vol. 75, No. 1-4, 2023)
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Sustainability at the Core of Strategic Planning for Museums Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Christos Carras
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Discursive Strategies of Climate Change: The Case of Climate Activism in Museums Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Beatriz Salinas Marambio
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Mountains on Display: Curating Time, Uncontrollability and Vulnerable Ecosystems at Haus der Berge and Norsk Fjellsenter Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Marie-Theres Fojuth
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Towards Sustainable Cultural Institutions for a New Nation: Creating a National Museum and Archives for South Sudan Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Elke Selter, Jok Madut Jok
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Climatic and Environmental Threats to Cultural Heritage Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Ana Maria Theresa P. Labrador
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The Sustainable Museum: How Museums Contribute to the Great Transformation Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Somlak Charoenpot
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Museum Sustainabilities Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Jane Legget, Ana Maria Theresa P. Labrador
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Towards Sustainability in the Museum Sector: A Circular-Economy-Based Model for Museum Collections Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Aleksandra Nikolić, Nataša Petrović
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A Path Forward: Curating Art & Climate Change at the Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 John Kenneth Paranada
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Entangled and Sustainable Approaches to Museum Practices: A Case Study of the University of Queensland’s Blue Assembly Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Jacqueline Chlanda, Léuli Eshrāghi, Peta Rake, Isabella Baker, Jocelyn Flynn, Brent Wilson
Published in Museum International (Vol. 75, No. 1-4, 2023)
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Deeply Ecologising Museums and Heritage: A Case Study of the Horniman Museum and Gardens Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Flavia Palermo
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Externalised Storage: An Opportunity for Sustainable Development? A Case Study of the Louvre Conservation Centre in Liévin, France Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Marie-Lys Marguerite, Hélène Vassal
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Sustainability as a Driving Force: Perspectives on Museums in Germany as Social Actors Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Guido Fackler
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Cosmogonies of Economic Growth in Nso Communities: Exhuming ‘Homemade’ Sustainable Development from German Museum Archives Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Murielle Sandra Tiako Djomatchoua
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From Sustainable Development to Sustaining Practices for Human, More-than and Other-than Human Worlds Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Fiona R. Cameron
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Reparative Approaches to Philippine Collections at the University of Michigan Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Ricardo L. Punzalan, Deirdre de la Cruz
Abstract The University of Michigan’s role in US colonial expansion resulted in the accumulation of one of the largest Philippine cultural and natural history collections in North America. It is time for the university to address its colonial complicity in the formation of these collections by developing decolonial practices so that the institution can provide reciprocal and reparative access to these
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Reclaiming the Other: Tribal Museums as Postcolonial Spaces Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Sofia Karliner
Abstract In this article I locate myself within the scholarly conversation on museum decolonisation through an investigation of existing literature concerning contemporary Native American museums, both mainstream and tribal. Orienting my research within the historiography of museums’ entanglement with colonialism, I examine decolonisation efforts in the United States by analysing the role of the National
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Editorial: Towards Decolonisation Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Bruno Brulon Soares, Andrea Witcomb
Published in Museum International (Vol. 74, No. 3-4, 2022)
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An Indigenous Woman Troubling the Museum’s Colonialist Legacy: Conversation with Glicéria Tupinambá Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Glicéria (Célia) Tupinambá
Published in Museum International (Vol. 74, No. 3-4, 2022)
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Towards the Integral (and Integrating) Museum: Over 50 Years of Practices and Reflections From the Global South Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Bruno Brulon Soares, Mario Chagas, Leonardo Mellado González, Karin Weil
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La Casa Del Museo: A Museum Outreach Project at the Outset of Decolonial Criticism Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Leticia Pérez Castellanos
Abstract This article presents some of the practices of the experimental project La Casa del Museo and their long-term results. This project exemplifies the exploration undertaken by various professionals at the Museo Nacional de Antropología (MNA) to reconsider the role of that institution in relation to society, coinciding with the rise of decolonial criticism. It also allows for a reconsideration
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Reframing the Present by Recontextualising The Past: Towards Decolonising Nigerian Museums Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Oluwatoyin Sogbesan
Abstract Museums in Nigeria, as in other colonised countries across the globe, are often perceived as stemming from a Western social construct with origins in colonial administration. However, such a general notion fails to consider local ways of recording, presenting and preserving traditional artefacts: ones that specifically represent a people and its culture. During the colonial era, the establishment
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The Plunder of Maqdala: Ethical Concerns Around Belongings and Ancestral Remains in Museums Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Lucia Patrizio Gunning, Debbie Challis
During the colonial period, museums did not just passively benefit from the plunder of human remains and culturally sacred items. When Britain sent a punitive military expedition to Abyssinia (now ...
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Museums as Platforms of Resistance: The Use of Technology in Conflict Memory, Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Eduardo Briceño-Florez, Kathryn Eccles
Abstract This article asks what we can learn about the role of technology as a tool of resistance in a post-conflict society by examining a case study of a museum under construction, and in the shadow of a still- unresolved conflict. We show how the virtual staging of the Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica in Colombia has been crucial to its success in challenging more recent political events and
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Decolonisation, Indigenisation and Digital Returns: Two Case Studies from Australia Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Anna Edmundson
Abstract This article centres on two digital return projects led by Yolngu community stakeholders from North East Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. Both projects illustrate how concepts of decolonisation and Indigenisation have been mobilised by Yolngu people within an affirmative action framework to overcome past malpractices, and to bring about a transformative environment of cultural
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An Incomplete Glossary of Change to Activate Decolonising and Indigenising Practices in Museums Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Laura Phillips
Abstract In this article, drawing on my perspective as a settler of white Euro-Welsh/English/Irish ancestry, I discuss words and concepts that are crucial to decolonising and Indigenising museums, with a particular focus on the lands now known as Canada. Museums, heritage spaces and other memory institutions are only beginning to grapple with decolonising and Indigenising approaches that place unacknowledged
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Arriving at the Current Museum Definition: A Global Task and a Decentralising Exercise Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Lauran Bonilla-Merchav, Bruno Brulon Soares
Published in Museum International (Vol. 74, No. 3-4, 2022)
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Book Review Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Margareta von Oswald
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After the Fire: Developing Reconstruction Strategies and Public Outreach at the Museu Nacional/UFRJ Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Fernanda Cristina Cardoso Guedes, Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner
Abstract On the night of 2 September 2018, a globally reported fire destroyed the main headquarters of the Museu Nacional/UFRJ in Brazil. Located in the neighbourhood of São Cristóvão, north of Rio de Janeiro, this institution is not only Brazil’s first museum, but also its first scientific organisation. Recognised as one of the largest natural history and anthropology museums in Latin America, about
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Exhibiting the Past to Build a Nation: 19th-Century Identities and Museums in Spain and Italy Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Jonatan Jair López-Muñoz
Abstract This article analyses how political and cultural European elites crafted new historical narratives to construct identities during the process of defining the nation-state in the 19th century. It looks specifically at the cases of Spain and Italy, two Mediterranean countries that have common characteristics with regards to the process of crafting their national identities: the use of historical
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Reconstructions and Re-readings by the Editorial Board Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Ana Maria Theresa P. Labrador, Andrea Witcomb, Bruno Brulon Soares, Charalampos (Harris) Chaitas, Hervé François, Jane Legget, Mathieu Viau-Courville, Morongwa Mosothwane
Published in Museum International (Vol. 74, No. 1-2, 2022)
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Collections Emerge from the Shadows: Exhibition Design, or a Multi-sensory Approach to Reinvesting in Collections Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Viviana Gobbato
Abstract The event-driven imperative for art museums has led some to fear the decline of permanent collections in favour of temporary exhibitions. However, recent studies have highlighted new museum practices that aim to promote permanent exhibitions through various strategies, such as carte blanche artist projects, artist residencies and performances. Art collections therefore seem to be emerging
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‘Light in the Temple’: The Influence of Mouseion and the New International Museology in the Rooms of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Victoria Márquez Feldman
Abstract This article analyses the changes that took place in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (the National Museum of Fine Arts) of Argentina in the 1930s. Founded in 1895, it moved to a new building in 1933, leaving behind the chaotic display of the 19th-century pavilion that used to host its collections. The newly relocated museum then revealed a brand-new museography, which implied radical changes
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The Need to Create a Network of Exile Museums Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Inmaculada Real López
Abstract This article examines the Spanish museum scene in terms of the problem of establishing a network of exile museums that evoke democratic memory. The Spanish case is shaped by the Civil War (1936-1939), which has resulted in a diaspora of numerous artists whose legacy is preserved today in different museums across the country; but to date there has been no initiative to create an inter-territorial
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Museums in Universities: Predicaments and Potentialities Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Camila Plaza
Abstract This paper summarises an analysis of university museums, pinpointing the debates that have framed these institutions both as objects that can be studied and as a field of research that continues to evolve. Twenty years after the first conference held by UMAC in 2001, it is time to reflect upon what has been a fruitful period of research and attempt to map out future directions. The results
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Seeking the Sound: Sound-Based Interpretive Approaches in Exhibitions of Sound-Producing Objects Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Foteini Salmouka, Andromache Gazi
Abstract Sound-producing objects, such as musical instruments and sound devices, are a distinct category of museum objects because their museification has deprived them of their primary characteristic: sound. This paper discusses the use of sound as an interpretive tool in exhibitions of sound-producing objects. After reviewing the use of sound as an interpretive medium in contemporary museum exhibitions
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Digital Heritage and Contingent Labour in the Museum Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Haley Bryant
Abstract Museums have responded to calls for accountability and reconciliation by establishing cultural recuperation programming, which commonly involves community members travelling to museums to visit and research object collections. Community groups identify the ability to be physically present with their belongings and bear witness to the stories and relations they embody as one of the most valuable
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Cultural Franchises or Franchising Cultures? Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Alejandra Linares Figueruelo
Abstract Museums franchises have been part of our lives for several decades, gathering momentum and taking the cultural world by storm. These museums ‘brands’ are a product of the changes museums have experienced in the past decades that shaped their role as a social agents, and the influence of globalisation, which altered the paradigm of the essence of what museums constitute, and ultimately their
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Embodied Cognition and the Limits of Digital Museum Experience Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Renata Pękowska
Abstract A museum visit is a life event, which can result in an array of experiences that its digital counterparts are not able to reproduce. Museum topographies reveal themselves through our encounters with them. The knowledge we gain is connected to physical locations and things, stored as scenarios and registered as whole events. The context of embodied and situated cognition provides a strong and
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How to Support Academic Writing for Museum Professionals Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Joseph Roche
Abstract When museum research is published, it is often written by researchers who observe or work with museum staff rather than by museum professionals themselves. By making academic writing and publishing more inclusive to museum professionals, their unique communication skills and experiences could be harnessed to better reflect the museum sector in the published literature. Encouraging professional
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Empty Museums Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-01
(2021). Empty Museums. Museum International: Vol. 73, No. 3-4, pp. iv-ix.
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An Abrupt and Brutal Audit: An Analysis of the Crisis Management Response of UK Museums and Heritage Attractions to the Covid-19 Pandemic Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Rachel Mackay
Abstract In March 2020, museums and heritage sites faced indefinite closure as the United Kingdom government sought to curb the spread of a new virus. Covid-19 brought a new kind of crisis to the heritage sector, but it also brought a learning opportunity. This article outlines a research project, conducted at the height of the pandemic, which sought to assess the museum and heritage sector crisis
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The Future of Blockbuster Exhibitions After the Covid-19 Crisis: The Case of the Dutch Museum Sector Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Kaja Jurčišinová, Marline Lisette Wilders, Janneke Visser
Abstract This article deals with the long-known vulnerability of the blockbuster exhibition business model, which is defined as an exhibition that receives major loans, aims to attract a large body of visitors and uses marketing methods to achieve this. In light of the current Covid-19 crisis, which resulted in the closure of museums, blockbusters have become especially problematic. This article addresses
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Working to Create Value: Spanish Museums and the Challenge of Connecting with Generation Z Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Ainhoa Simón Diez
Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic has temporarily emptied museums and drawn attention to an aspect of these cultural institutions that is often seen as secondary and subordinate to their physical presence: the digital dimension. Having been forced to close their doors, museums have sought to boost their online activity through a range of different initiatives. The most notable actions undertaken in terms
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Distant but United: A Cooperation Charter between Ecomuseums of Italy and Brazil Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Raul Dal Santo, Nádia Helena Oliveira Almeida, Raffaella Riva
Abstract In 2020, Brazil and Italy were among the countries most adversely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. The situation highlighted latent structural crises at social and economic levels and prompted widespread concern for the future. Operating in this context, ecomuseums and community museums continued their mission of caring for and interpreting living cultural heritage, empowering communities
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Pandemic, Protests and Building Back: 20 Months at the British Museum Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Stuart Frost
Abstract This article is a personal reflection that examines the impact of the pandemic on the British Museum’s (BM) onsite interpretation and audiences; however, it is informed by robust visitor insight and evaluation as well as by direct experience. Quotes from the public are incorporated throughout. Covid-19 led to the BM’s closure on 18 March 2020, the first of several national lockdowns in the
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Managing an Exhibition Project in the Midst of the Covid-19-Pandemic: A Case Study in Berlin, Germany Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Robert Hoffmann, Christopher Hölzel, Henriette Henning
Abstract This paper focuses on the experience of managing an exhibition project, undertaken by young professionals from the Museums of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin during the Covid-19 pandemic. The exhibition Status. Power. Movement was on display at the Berlin Cultural Forum (Kulturforum) from September 2020 to February 2021. In this interdisciplinary project, 13 co-curators
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From an Onsite to an Online Experience: The Case of the Museo Gabriela Mistral de Vicuña Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Leslie Azócar, Oscar Hauyon
Abstract The Museo Gabriela Mistral, dedicated to the only Latin American woman to have yet won the Nobel Prize for Literature, is part of the state network of museums in Chile. It is located in Vicuña, in the Elqui Valley. Prior to the pandemic, it received 140,000 visitors annually, mostly women and elderly Chileans, according to data provided by audience studies. Located in the poet's birthplace
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Re-imagining Museums in a Pandemic: New Governance For a Living, Open and Sustainable Museum Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Jimena Lobo Guerrero Arenas, María Fernanda Zuluaga Medina
Abstract By means of a case study, this article presents the need to develop a contextual museology that allows models of museum management to be adapted in times of transition or crisis. It also defends the need to implement knowledge-management processes that advocate systematising and documenting the memory of museum entities, which can in turn serve as a foundation for planning museum practices
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Unity in a Time of Uncertainty: Ithra’s Approach During the Pandemic in Saudi Arabia Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Candida Pestana, Lama Alissa
Abstract One landmark of the Saudi cultural scene in the time of Covid-19 has been the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (also known as Ithra), a recently opened Saudi cultural institution that features museums, a library, a cinema, a theatre, a children’s museum and more. Ithra’s mission is ‘to make a tangible and positive impact on human development by inspiring a passion for knowledge, creativity
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Copyright Management in Museums: Expediency or Necessity? Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Anna Pluszyńska
Abstract Although the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the temporary closure of cultural institutions is not propitious, there are some opportunities for museums. In fact, the crisis may represent an incentive for change. One of the crucial issues in this crisis is the matter of copyright management in museum collections. Copyright is a valuable asset for organisations, on which the possibility of using
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The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Inescapable Challenge of the Anthropocene for Museums Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Massimo Bernardi
Abstract Several indicators suggest that the Covid-19 pandemic has raised public awareness around climate and environmental emergencies, and expanded global consciousness around the interdependencies of natural systems and their individual components. These trends add up to a growing awareness of both environmental damage and social injustices, brought to wide global attention by the 2019 Climate Strikes
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Thinking Phygital: A Museological Framework of Predictive Futures Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Sandro Debono
Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic has underpinned the relevance and significance of the strategic use of digital tools for museums as they were unexpectedly obliged to function from behind physically closed doors. Indeed, it is fair to state that museums have come to recognise the relevance and significance of the digital to a far greater degree than they did prior to the pandemic, and museums have also
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Articulating a Museum from Absence: Emptiness in the Conflictorium beyond Pandemic Times Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Friederike Landau-Donnelly, Avni Sethi
Abstract In this paper, we examine how the Conflictorium – Museum of Conflict in Ahmedabad, India, grapples with the complex and interrelated phenomena of emptiness and absence. We explore how emptiness at once appears, disappears, and reappears in museum spaces, and how activist curatorial choices around exhibition-making and community engagement intermingle with subtly enforced prohibitions (i.e
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The Empty Museum: A Southeast Asian Perspective Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Ana Maria Theresa P. Labrador
Abstract We now regard the COVID-19 pandemic as a disaster like no other caught as we were, by the lack of foresight into its impacts on our lives and our work. With the creative and tourism industries most affected, museums were forced to reinvent their management strategies. In the context of Southeast Asia, the most immediate shock was the absence of visitors around mid-March 2020 when museums were
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The Submerged Part of the Iceberg Museum International (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-23
(2021). The Submerged Part of the Iceberg. Museum International: Vol. 73, Museum Collection Storage. Guest Editors: Yaël Kreplak and François Mairesse, pp. iv-iv.