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This book presents a visionary and comprehensive exploration of how museums are adapting to the evolving demands of contemporary society. It highlights the multiple roles museums play, as cultural institutions, educational spaces, social actors, and agents of innovation, while addressing the multifaceted challenges and opportunities museums face. Providing readers with a thorough understanding of their transformative potential, the book adopts a forward-looking perspective on the role of museums in shaping the future. Underpinning this vision is a reflective and critical stance, exploring and emphasizing how such transformation can happen in meaningful and sustainable ways.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to Museums of the Future: Past Lessons, Present Reflections, Future Visions.- Chapter 2: Engaging, Interactive, and Reflective Visitor Experiences in Dynamic Art and Science Museums through Storytelling and Technology.- Chapter 3: Phygital Museums: Bridging the Physical and Digital for Future Visitor Engagement.- Chapter 4: Meaningful Technology Mediated Exhibition Design: Innovative Approaches to Visitor Experience in Chinese Science and Art Museums.- Chapter 5: We Want Everyone to Hear Us A Mile Coming! Birmingham Museums and Cultural Citizenship.- Chapter 6: Engagements, Not Visits; Participants Not Audience: Sustaining an Inherited Community at District Six Museum.- Chapter 7: Creating Future Narratives: The Urban Civil Rights Museum in Harlem.- Chapter 8: The Power of the Community.- Chapter 9: Overcoming Contemporary Barriers and Controversies in Decolonization: Reflections on African Cultural Heritage in Western and African Museums.- Chapter 10: Threads of the Zeitgeist: Curating Fashion Communication and Pop Culture for Tomorrow s Museums.- Chapter 11: Curatorial Dream/ing . The Making of the Expo Happy Family: The Chinese Community in Antwerp , Red Star Line Migration Museum..- Chapter 12: A Comprehensive Collection of Ancient Chinese Paintings : An Exemplary Case of Global Cultural Heritage Preservation and Curation through Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Communication.- Chapter 13: Between Imagination and Administration. The Pedagogical Potential of University Galleries.- Chapter 14: Joyful Methods of Letting Go: A Repositioning of Museum Practices.- Chapter 15: . Insurgent Wayfinding: Museums, Climate Catastrophe, and the Return of Ecofascism.- Chapter 16: The Future as Redemption of the Unborn Past.- Chapter 17: Standing in the Future, Anchored by Ancestors A Conversation between Puawai Cairns and Tyrone Ohia.
About the author
Dirk Reynders, PhD, is a lecturer, writer, and cultural critic focused on visual culture, gender, and ethnicity. He leads inclusive research and curricula, and edits volumes on fashion, arts and queer culture. His forthcoming books explore masculinity in contemporary media and design.
Priscilla Van Even, PhD, is a researcher, lecturer, and museum educator working at the intersections of knowledge translation, meaningful interactions, and epistemic diversity. Her work draws on co-creative methods and active engagement with diverse publics, with the aim of amplifying underrepresented voices and fostering inclusive dialogue.
Jennifer A. Scott, is a curator, anthropologist and public historian, and her work explores connections between museums, arts, history and social justice. She is the founding executive director and chief curator of the Urban Civil Rights Museum in Harlem and an associate professor at The New School in New York, USA.
