Contemporary museums are currently facing a process of deep transformation of their missions, strategies, and modes of representation. As their role and purpose are being rethought, their spaces, tools and communication approaches need to be reformulated too. Th e MeLa project is located in this context. It assumes that one of the main challenges for a museum today lies in dealing with the conditions posed by what the project defi nes as “an age of migrations.” The ongoing process of European unifi cation, the growing phenomena of migration and mobility of people, goods, knowledge and ideas, the construction of a pluralistic civic community, and the consequent multiplicity of contemporary culture ask for a redefi nition of the museums’ organization and representation strategies in a more pluralistic and shared sense. The four-year interdisciplinary research MeLa aims at envisioning one such development of contemporary European museums.

The MeLa Project: research questions, objectives and tools.

F. Lanz;G. Postiglione
2012-01-01

Abstract

Contemporary museums are currently facing a process of deep transformation of their missions, strategies, and modes of representation. As their role and purpose are being rethought, their spaces, tools and communication approaches need to be reformulated too. Th e MeLa project is located in this context. It assumes that one of the main challenges for a museum today lies in dealing with the conditions posed by what the project defi nes as “an age of migrations.” The ongoing process of European unifi cation, the growing phenomena of migration and mobility of people, goods, knowledge and ideas, the construction of a pluralistic civic community, and the consequent multiplicity of contemporary culture ask for a redefi nition of the museums’ organization and representation strategies in a more pluralistic and shared sense. The four-year interdisciplinary research MeLa aims at envisioning one such development of contemporary European museums.
2012
Museums in an Age of Migrations: quetions, challenges, perspectives
978-88-95194-32-5
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