Museums, Where the Public Creates the Future

The National Museum of Prehistory’s Museum’s System and Local Knowledge Network Integration Project has created a channel for the Museum to work with various indigenous tribes. The collaborative process brings to the fore the museum’s role as a site for serving the local community and the wider public, and it has also pushed the Museum to learn and adapt so as to initiate more preservation of and research into local knowledge. The collaborative effort has leveraged the Museum’s experience, techniques, and resources to gain greater momentum. Both the Museum and the indigenous tribes are able to use the project as a platform for holding exhibitions and workshops to share the results of the collaboration with more people. Museums today are trying to find paths away from the convention of merely bringing people to the museum. Instead, they are pushing to deconstruct museums so that their spirit can be reconstructed within the fabric of daily life and become a hub for dialogue between the past and present.