These are excerpts from a talk I gave at the international symposium “Making History Together: Public Participation in Museums” on the 15th December 2020 Hello everyone. It is a pleasure to be here with you. My name is Quoc-Tan Tran (or just call me Tan). I’m from the POEM project. …

Is the primary purpose of museums to care for objects or for people? Are the two sometimes mutually exclusive? In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, and amid calls for greater transparency, decolonisation and social inclusion in the museum sector, this article considers some of the challenges that memory institutions…

Getting back to work after the Christmas and New Year holidays, one of my colleagues told me that she will extend her Netflix subscription at the end of her one-month free trial (so that the transition back to the office doesn’t have to be a nightmare, I guess). My colleague…