The Museum of the Future between Analogue and Digital Space

Peter Sloterdik sees our digitalized world in a “growing spatial crisis”, accompanied by the danger of a “general virtuality of all relationships”. Others view the digitalization of the world as opening up a grassroots democratic space that allows everyone access to culture. Against this backdrop, this anthology examines the spatial characteristics of the museum – between physical place and virtual space. The chapters collected here approach the museum space from various disciplinary perspectives, such as philosophy, history, art history, architecture, scenography, museum education and curatorial studies. The individual chapters by international museum experts are assigned to different literary genres – fundamental considerations alternate with think pieces, case studies and interviews.

The interdisciplinary anthology investigates the museum of the future as a sensual, architectural, staged, curatorial, discursive, social, educational and networked space.