What is the function of the museum in culture today? Leading culture makers offer perspectives for the new era ahead

Gathering together fresh perspectives from more than 25 leading art and museum figures--including artists, architects, curators and museum directors--from all

over the world, this collection of interviews and contributions shares idiosyncratic views, feedback and visions of what is and what should or should not be a museum in the 21st century, both inherently and in our fast-changing cultural ecosystem.

Do we need a new art historical canon? How can museums become welcoming places for everybody? How should a museum deal with artworks that are considered problematic today? Is the blockbuster a thing of the past? How can museums be sustainable? These are some of the pressing questions answered very differently by the contributors, together with others dealing with the relationships between the local and the global, the museums' governance and financial organization, technological possibilities, and audience-related challenges. Showing the diversity of today's thinking about the museum, this tome constitutes a valuable handbook for navigating an ever-evolving landscape.

Edited by Cristina Bechtler and Dora Imhof, the book is introduced by Chris Dercon and concludes with a postface by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

博物馆在当今文化中的功能是什么？先进文化制造者提供了对未来新时代的展望

本书汇集了全球25位艺术和博物馆领军人物的新观点，包括艺术家、建筑师、策展人和博物馆馆长。这些采访和贡献分享了独特的观点、反馈和愿景：从本质和快速变化的文化生态系统来看，在21世纪，什么是博物馆，以及什么应该或不应该是博物馆。

我们需要一个新的艺术史典籍吗？博物馆如何才能成为备受大家欢迎的地方？博物馆应该如何处理今天备受争议的艺术作品？大片已经成为过去式了吗？博物馆如何才能做到可持续发展？对于这些紧迫问题，还有一些涉及到地方和全球之间的关系、博物馆的管理和财务组织、技术的可能性和观众相关的挑战，作者都给出了不同的回答。本书展示了当今人们对博物馆看法的多样性，为探索不断变化的景观提供了一本有价值的手册。本书由克里斯蒂娜·贝赫特勒（Cristina Bechtler）和多拉·伊姆霍夫（Dora Imhof）编辑，由克里斯·德康（Chris Dercon）介绍，最后由汉斯·乌尔里希·奥布里斯特（Hans Ulrich Obrist）作后记。