Nora Sternfeld – författare

In this revised and updated translation of Das Radikaldemokratische Museum, Sternfeld offers a timely critique of museums as they exist today and instead calls for museums to be reconceptualised as contested spaces for debate and new forms of political activism.Drawing upon approaches from museum studies, education and critical theory, this volume challenges past and present exhibitions and reconsiders how museum spaces can be re‑appropriated in order to produce critical knowledge, rethink education and challenge collections. In doing so, Sternfeld envisages the radical democratic museum as a space that allows us to grapple with the past, negotiate what this means for the present and imagine a future that is more than simply an extension of the present.This provocative and timely book will be relevant to scholars, students and practitioners with interests in museums, critical heritage studies, social justice and political movements.

In this revised and updated translation of Das Radikaldemokratische Museum, Sternfeld offers a timely critique of museums as they exist today and instead calls for museums to be reconceptualised as contested spaces for debate and new forms of political activism.Drawing upon approaches from museum studies, education and critical theory, this volume challenges past and present exhibitions and reconsiders how museum spaces can be re‑appropriated in order to produce critical knowledge, rethink education and challenge collections. In doing so, Sternfeld envisages the radical democratic museum as a space that allows us to grapple with the past, negotiate what this means for the present and imagine a future that is more than simply an extension of the present.This provocative and timely book will be relevant to scholars, students and practitioners with interests in museums, critical heritage studies, social justice and political movements.

Heute ist oft von einem „Museum der Zukunft" die Rede: als Kontaktzone, Arena, Forum und Plattform – vielleicht sogar als besetzter Raum: Das Museum der Zukunft wäre radikaldemokratisch. Im Hinblick auf eine Neudefinition des Museums aktualisiert Nora Sternfeld Ansätze aus Museologie, Vermittlung und Erinnerungskultur. So verfolgen die Texte dieses Bandes Strategien, die das Archiv herausfordern, Museumsraum aneignen, alternatives Wissen produzieren und Bildung neu denken. Das Museum wird dabei zu einem Versammlungsraum, der es erlaubt, sich damit auseinanderzusetzen, was geschehen ist, darüber zu verhandeln, was dies für die Gegenwart bedeutet und wie sich eine Zukunft imaginieren lässt, die mehr ist, als bloß die Verlängerung der Gegenwart.