Museum Futures Group | The Museum Futures Group interrogates the museum as institution and unlocks its potential in terms of cross-sector partnerships and innovative curatorial practices/interventions.

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The Museum Futures Group interrogates the museum as institution and unlocks its potential in terms of cross-sector partnerships and innovative curatorial practices/interventions.

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To investigate the museum as a multi-functional institution using theoretical approaches and empirical research.
To focus on the museum as site of collective memory, education, entertainment and agent of social change and urban regeneration.
To facilitate long term partnerships/short term collaborations between HE establishments, museums/galleries, and commercial institutions.
To offer consultancy services with student involvement in order to deliver collections/archives to new audiences through innovative curatorial/spatial practices and interventions.
To involve community groups in processes of curation and provision of alternative sites for display of local narratives.
To publish academic/journalistic articles, deliver conference papers and make public documentation of ongoing collaborative projects through the group website.
To create opportunities for exchange of ideas between museum, HE and commercial sectors through networking events and symposia.

The Museum Futures Group interrogates the museum as institution and unlocks its potential in terms of cross-sector partnerships and innovative curatorial practices/interventions.

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