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1st Edition

Towards an Inclusive Museology in Material Culture Museums Conceptual Art as a Method

Edited By Marta Jecu Copyright 2026

242 Pages 15 Color & 21 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

This volume explores contemporary artistic practices developed in material culture museums to reimagine historic collections. It begins by examining the influence of conceptual art within art museums and the transformative impact it has had on museology. Specifically, it highlights how conceptual art's institutional critique, initially rooted in the art world, has been adopted and adapted by... Read more

Table of Contents

Introduction: Conceptual Art as Method

Marta Jecu

Part 1: Inside the Art Museum: Rethinking Museology

1. Imagine! Reveal! Invade! How 1970s Performance Art Contributed to a Critical Museology

Lisa Beißwanger

2. Art and Social Agency in a State of (Post)Transition

Željka Miklošević and Patricia Počanić

3. Disruption at Work: Brook Andrew Inside the Museum

Clementine Debrosse

4. Curatorial Practice as Conceptual Art: The Rijksmuseum’s Slavery (2021) & The Fitzwilliam Museum’s Black Atlantic: Power, People, resistance (2023 & 2025)

Nicola Foster

Part 2: Inside the Material Culture Museum: Conceptual Art in a Sociomuseological Perspective

5. Building the School of Thought of Sociomuseology: Paths Taken and Challenges

Judite Primo and Mário Moutinho

6. Beyond the Colonial Canon at the Musée de l’Homme, Paris. Yto Barrada Reads Thérèse Rivière’s Archives

Anna Chiara Cimoli

7. Innovation and Renovation at the Afrikamuseum, Tervuren (A Conversation with Christine Bluard)

8. Re-embodying Museum Objects: Rosanna Raymond’s Acti.VĀ.tions and the Question of the Object in New Museology

Karen Jacobs

9. Artist Intervention, by its Very Definition, Cannot Dismantle the Master’s House

Juliet Harrison

Part 3: Conceptualism and a Future-oriented Museum

10. Dialogues with Museums in Angola and Beyond (A Conversation with Paula Nascimento)

11. The Metabolic Museum–University (MM–U) and Other Projects (A Conversation with Clémentine Deliss)

12. Home Museum: Challenging Western Museological Practices Through Inclusive Participation in Lagos, Nigeria

Oluwatoyin Sogbesan

13. Museums in Tension: Critical Encounters and Insurgent Practices

Maria Luisa Moita

14. Museums and Climate: From Institutional Critique to the Ecosocial Museum

Pablo Martinez

15. Curating as open process: constructing conversations between political ecology and artistic research that shift institutional practices

Kathryn Weir

Editor(s)

Biography

Marta Jecu is an integrated researcher and professor at Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal and an independent curator.

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