The Contemporary Museum
The Contemporary Museum issues a challenge to those who view the museum as an artefact of history, constrained in its outlook as much by professional, institutional and disciplinary creed, as by the…
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The Contemporary Museum issues a challenge to those who view the museum as an artefact of history, constrained in its outlook as much by professional, institutional and disciplinary creed, as by the collections it accumulated in the distant past. Denying that the museum can locate its purpose in the pursuit of tradition or in idealistic speculation about the future, the book asserts that this can only be found through an ongoing and proactive negotiation with the present: the contemporary.This volume is not concerned with any present, but with the peculiar circumstances of what it refers to as the 'global contemporary' - the sense of living in a globally connected world that is preoccupied with the contemporary. To situate the museum in this world of real and immediate need and action, beyond the reach of history, the book argues, is to empower it to
The Souvenir Museum
Centering the Museum
Democratising the Museum
Escape The Museum
The Art Museum
The Butterfly Museum
Queering the Museum
The Souvenir Museum
The Ultimate Art Museum
The Museum of Innocence
Musician in the Museum
Robbers at the Museum -
The India Museum Revisited
The British Museum: Colours
Stickyscapes at the Museum