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The Portuguese Contemporary Art Museum Today

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In this chapter, I offer two hypotheses as necessary frameworks for the discussion about the function of art museums. The first focuses on our general relationship with the past, which is undergoing a profound change. The second hypothesis concerns the understanding of aesthetic experience, increasingly independent of its former status. Our daily life and knowledge of the world is permeated by cultural codes (and scripts) connected with a new chronotope. In response to these two frameworks and despite internal tensions of various types, I explore how education has been understood and implemented at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art (SMCA) in Porto (Portugal) as an autonomous and innovative practice.

Keywords: aesthetic experience ; appreciation of contemporary art and culture ; art museum education ; art museum mediations ; chronotop ; contemporary culture ; education and public programmes ; Elvira Leite ; Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich ; museum practices ; Portugal ; schools and art museums ; Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art (SMCA) ; Serralves Park and Museum ; SMCA Education Department

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The Portuguese Contemporary Art Museum Today
Intellect , 137 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789389135_13
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