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The Future of Museums (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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The Future of Museums (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Arts, Research, Innovation and Society
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This book explores at the macro, meso and micro levels and in terms
of qualitative as well as quantitative studies the current and
future role of museums for art and society. Given the dynamic
developments in art and society, museums need to change in order to
remain (and in some ways, regain) relevance. This relevance is in
the sense of a power to influence. Additionally museums have
challenges that arise in the production of art through the use of
permanent and rapidly changing technologies. This book examines how
museums deal with the increasing importance of performance art and
social interactive art, artistic disciplines which refuse to use
classical or digital artistic media in their artistic processes.
The book also observes how museums are adapting in the digital age.
It addresses such questions as, "How to keep museums in contact
with recipients of art in a world in which the patterns of
communication and perception have changed dramatically," and also
"Can the art museum, as a real place, be a counterpart in a
virtualized and digitalized society or will museums need to
virtualize and even globalize themselves virtually?" Chapters also
cover topics such as the merits of digital technologies in museums
and how visitors perceive these changes and innovations. When you
go back to the etymological origin, the Mouseion of Alexandria, it
was a place where - supported by the knowledge stored there - art
and science were developed: a place of interdisciplinary research
and networking, as you would call it today. The word from the
Ancient Hellenic language for museum ( ) means the "house of the
muses": where the arts and sciences find their berth and cradle.
With the "Wunderkammer," the museum was re-invented as a place for
amazing for purpose of representation of dynastic power, followed
by the establishment of museums as a demonstration of bourgeois
self-consciousness. In the twentieth century, the ideal of the
museum as an institution for education received a strong boost,
before the museum as a tourism infrastructure became more and more
the institutional, economic and political role-model. This book is
interested in discovering what is next for museums and how these
developments will affect art and society. Each of the chapters are
written by academics in the field, but also by curators and
directors of major museums and art institutions.
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