How can contemporary art transform the ways museums tell history? Bringing together case studies from ethnographic and history museums as well as independent, small-scale initiatives across the Global South and North, the contributions explore artistic interventions in heritage institutions. Artists confront colonial-era collections and material culture, developing new ways of narrating the past that challenge linear histories and make space for plural, divergent, and even polemical voices. Each case distils methods and tools for critically reinterpreting, decolonising, and amplifying museum displays – approaches that museum professionals, educators, curators, and artists can adapt to their own contexts.
Publication
Museums in Transformation – Inclusive and Circular Practices with Contemporary Art
A Toolkit for Museums and Collections. Transcript Verlag, Berlin.
June 2027
Arantxa Ciafrino, Henrique Godoy, Marta Jecu (eds.), 2027, Museums in Transformation – Inclusive and Circular Practices with Contemporary Art. A Toolkit for Museums and Collections. Transcript Verlag, Berlin.
Museums in Transformation – Inclusive and Circular Practices with Contemporary Art
A Toolkit for Museums and Collections
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