Eds. Diego Ballestero and Erik Petschelies
Transforming the museum into an object of epistemological reflection, Western academia claimed to move away from its conception as a static repository of cultural memory and redefine it as a place of social construction and change.
Interestingly, this ‘novel’ epistemological turn promoted by Western academia barely mentioned or omitted to refer to the experiences of the community museums that emerged in Latin America and Africa in the mid-1960s.
Nor did they account for resolutions arising from international meetings such as the Santiago de Chile Round Table (1972) or the first workshop on ‘Ecomuseums and New Museology’ in Quebec (1984), where objections were raised to the mode in which museological collections were exhibited, conserved and managed.
With several thought-provoking contributions.
