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Museums in super-diverse societies

Several experts discuss the challenge that the rise of cities’ cultural diversity represents for heritage institutions.

Jasper Chalcraft, (University of Sussex), Ulrike Meinhof, (University of Southampton), Simona Bodo (ISMU Foundation), and Perla Innocenti (University of Northumbria and University of Glasgow) explain why cultural diversity represents a challenge for museums.

How to ensure access and participation in a museum? How to turn museums into spaces for conversation? How to reach out to excluded communities?

In your opinion, have museums understood the challenges of cultural diversity and taken appropriate actions to address them?

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Cultural Diversity and the City

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