El museo y lo vivo. Propuestas para una museología venidera
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2023
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Museo Nacional del Prado
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Daniel Lesmes, "El museo y lo vivo. Propuestas para una museología venidera", en Javier Arnaldo (ed.), Actas del congreso internacional «Coordenadas culturales en la museología del presente: cinco neologismos». Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, (2023): 73-81
Abstract
RESUMEN: El eje dominante para la interpretación de la crisis ecológica actual parece concentrarse en la dialéctica demoledora entre técnica y naturaleza. Sin embargo, algunos teóricos del medioambiente han señalado aspectos más sutiles que también exigen comprender esta crisis como una «crisis de la sensibilidad». En este aspecto, la ecología compromete a los museos no sólo por sus particularidades arquitectónicas, sino, sobre todo, por hallarse en el corazón mismo de lo que entendemos que es la relación entre cultura y naturaleza. Si la naturaleza solía ser definida desde su posición exterior a la cultura, el neologismo «exomuseo» nos invita aquí a reconsiderar sus antagonismos desde la premisa del museólogo Zbyněk Stránský: «Un objeto de museo no es sólo un objeto dentro de un museo». Pues, tal vez, el mayor reto ecológico del museo esté en el modo en que se relaciona con sus objetos.
ABSTRACT: The mainstream interpretation of the current ecological crisis seems to focus on shattering the dialectic between technology and nature. However, some environmental theorists have pointed out more subtle aspects that also call for understanding this crisis as a ‘crisis of sensibility’. In this sense, ecology engages museums not only because of their architectural particularities, but, above all, because they are at the very heart of what we understand to be the relationship between culture and nature. If nature used to be defined from its position outside culture, the neologism ‘exomuseum’ invites us here to reconsider its antagonisms from the premise of the museologist Zbyněk Stránský: ‘A museum object is not just an object inside a museum’. Perhaps the way in which the museum relates to its objects is where its greatest ecological challenge lies.
ABSTRACT: The mainstream interpretation of the current ecological crisis seems to focus on shattering the dialectic between technology and nature. However, some environmental theorists have pointed out more subtle aspects that also call for understanding this crisis as a ‘crisis of sensibility’. In this sense, ecology engages museums not only because of their architectural particularities, but, above all, because they are at the very heart of what we understand to be the relationship between culture and nature. If nature used to be defined from its position outside culture, the neologism ‘exomuseum’ invites us here to reconsider its antagonisms from the premise of the museologist Zbyněk Stránský: ‘A museum object is not just an object inside a museum’. Perhaps the way in which the museum relates to its objects is where its greatest ecological challenge lies.