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What dust will rise? Il museo sotto assedio (o in esodo…)

Research Field
Author Giulia Grechi
Category Essays
Publication date July 2013
The latest issue of the online peer-reviewed journal Visual Ethnography includes an article by Giulia Grechi, research fellow at “L’Orientale”, cooperating to the enhancement of the MeLa Research Field 02, who offers a reading of an unsolved process about the role and the identity of contemporary museums, and their vocation as institutions devoted to citizen education. This role, in a difficult economic and cultural situation like the present one, is experiencing new unrests, but it is also experimenting new ways of discussing old questions, like representativeness and accessibility of the museum as a public place, heritage, citizenship and authority of museum narrations.

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