The Museum of the Future: Between Physical Place and Virtual Space

This volume The Museum of the Future: Between Physical Place and Virtual Space was published in 2024 and edited by Karl Borromäus Murr, Chairman of the European Museum Academy, on behalf of the EMA.

About the book:

Peter Sloterdijk sees our digitalized world in a “growing spatial crisis”, accompanied by the danger of a “general virtuality of all relationships”. Others view the digitalization of the world as opening up grassroots democratic space that allows everyone access to culture. Against this backdrop, this anthology examines the spatial characteristics of the museum – between physical place and virtual space. The chapters collected here approach the museum space from various disciplinary perspectives, such as philosophy, history, art history, architecture, scenography, museum education and curatorial studies. At the same time, the contributions by international museum experts are assigned do different literary genres – fundamental considerations alternate with think pieces, case studies and interviews.

This new Routledge Handbook of Museum and Heritage Education was published in June 2025, edited by Maggie McColl, Pete Brown, Michelle Delaney, Karl Borromäus Murr and Henrik Zipsane.

While Maggie McColl is a member of the Board of the European Museum Academy, Karl Borromäus Murr serves as Chairman and Henrik Zipsane as Director of the Academy. Together with Michelle Delaney, Deputy Director of History and Culture at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, and Pete Brown, an independent museum and heritage consultant, they formed the editorial board.