ABSTRACT
The editorial introduction maps key dilemmas currently facing museums when they interact with the world around them in order to underpin the definition of an experimental museology and the key claims on which the volume is based. Experimental museology is defined as museum-led processes of experimentation that foreground co-design and co-creation as ways of transforming current, often binary, discourses and established practices. The editors’ claim is that academics, professionals and practitioners together need to come together and move beyond analysis and critique of existing ways of thinking and acting, and that an involvement of actual and potential groups of museum users offer important catalysts. Then follows a brief overview of volume chapters that together offer documentation of how these cross-fertilisations evolve and what their outcomes are. Contributors offer case analyses from around the world, thus validating that experimental museology is a phenomenon of global reach and importance.
