The IntelligentNaivety team doesn’t like to gloat… but did we mention that the interweb was the next big thing for culture? Well apparently Nic Serota and Neil MacGregor agree.
Two titans of the British museum world, Sir Nicholas Serota and Neil MacGregor, last night sketched out their visions for the museum of the future.
Both said that the relationship between institutions and their audiences would be transformed by the internet. Museums, they said, would become more like multimedia organisations.
“The future has to be, without question, the museum as a publisher and broadcaster,” said MacGregor, director of the British Museum.
Serota, director of the Tate, said: “The challenge is, to what extent do we remain authors, and in what sense do we become publishers providing a platform for international conversations?
“I am certain that in the next 10 to 15 years, there will be a limited number of people working in galleries, and more effectively working as commissioning editors working on material online.”
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