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MUSEUMS AND THE PLACE OF THE MUSE: Stories and Cultural Tensions

A paper that aims to tease out some of the tensions to be found in contemporary museums and current museum practice. It discusses and touches upon:

• Introducing the Wundekammer & Kunstkammer to the 21st C & the World Wide Web
• Identifying museums’ Communities of Ownership & Interest – their Cognitive Owners 
• The question of whose stories they hold and who might have the authority to access and tell them
• How museums might build ‘Social Capital’ in their communities and ways they might develop meaningful and ongoing interfaces with their audiences
• Museums as ‘Ideas Factories’ in a 21st C context
• The issue of authenticity, purity and truths relevant to 'cognitive ownership' in a 21st C context

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