Post Critical Museology: Theory and Practice in the Art Museum

Post-Critical Museology considers what the role of the public and the experience of audiences means to the everyday work of the art museum.It does this from the perspectives of the art museum itself as well as from the visitors it seeks.Through the analysis of material gathered from a major collaborative research project carried out at Tate Britain in London the book develops a conceptual reconfiguration of the relationship between art, culture and society in which questions about the art museum’s relationship to global migration and the new media ecologies are examined.It suggests that whilst European museums have previously been studied as institutions of collection, heritage and tradition, however ‘modern’ their focus, it is now better to consider them as distributive networks in which value travels along transmedial and transcultural lines. Post-Critical Museology is intended as a contribution to progressive museological thinking and practice and calls for a new alignment of academ