Contemporary Curating and Museum Education

In the context of critical museology, museums are questioning their social role, defining the museum as a site for knowledge exchange and participation in creating links between past and present. Museum education has evolved as a practice in its own right, questioning, expanding and transforming exhibitions and institutions. How does museum work change if we conceive of curating and education as an integrated practice? This question is addressed by international contributors from different types of museums. For anyone interested in the future of museums, it offers insights into the diversity of positions and experiences of translating the »grand designs« of museology into practice.

Carmen Mörsch (Prof.), born 1968, art education practitioner and researcher, is head of the Institute of Art Education at Zurich University of the Arts and teaches in the Master of Arts in Art Education Curatorial Studies Education. Angeli Sachs (Prof.), born 1956, is an art historian, head of the Master of Arts in Art Education and the Specialization Curatorial Studies at Zurich University of the Arts as well as curator at the Museum of Design Zurich. Thomas Sieber (Prof.), born 1961, is a cultural historian and teaches with a focus on cultural and museum studies at Zurich University of the Arts.