Museums,Cultural Heritage and Senses of Connection
Home and homeland are often infused with positive sentiment that can play an important existential role in people's lives,and which is especially valued in contexts of change and dislocation.For some people,home and homeland may be experienced as limiting of life horizons or as contributing to senses of exclusion or even xenophobia.This lecture explores the question of how museums and cultural heritage can help people support senses of home and homeland that are not exclusionary or overly inward-looking;and how they can foster meaningful connections with a wider world.Drawing on the history of museums and cultural heritage,especially in relation to nation-building,it considers the range of connective capacities between home and world that they have conventionally offered.Arguing that other connective possibilities are also latent in collections and the museum form,this article cites a number of recent examples to offer alternatives that might be needed for contexts of cultural diversity and migration,as well as for resonant and replenishing ways of being at home in the world.
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