In his new book, Donatien Grau, a French writer, art critic and a curator at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, pursues a global conversation about the past and future of the encyclopedic museum.
The “encyclopedic museum” emerged as an institutional model at the end of the eighteenth century. Aspiring to present all forms of knowledge through a collection of objects, it blended science with art, natural science with technology, and the library with the cabinet of curiosities. Originally associated with a very small number of European institutions located at the center of vast colonial empires, the encyclopedic museum has since fractured into such specialized…
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