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Curating the Future: Museums Are Not Neutral

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Museums Are Not Neutral

BBC Radio 4 - Curating the Future, Museums Are Not Neutral

V&A Director Tristram Hunt explores the politics of the museum.

V&A Director Tristram Hunt asks how museums and galleries around the world are responding to 21st-century challenges.

Museums and galleries remain hugely popular but also face increasing criticism over who visits, who pays and what's on display.  

In an era of identity politics, V&A Director Tristram Hunt asks what future museums have when there is no greater sin than 'cultural appropriation', nationalism and nativism decry the multi-cultural stories that galleries tell, and the role of 'experts' is questioned.

With Directors of museums and galleries in London, Derby and Mumbai, Tristram discusses how best to attract new audiences and whether museums should try to promote social justice, transforming their traditional role. He also considers claims that 'Museums Are Not Neutral', explores the co-curation of exhibitions and asks whether 'lived experience’ is as valuable as curatorial knowledge.  


Producer: Julia Johnson

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