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Sandro Debono
Pensatore del museo e stratega culturale. Insegna museologia all'Università di Malta, è membro del comitato scientifico dell’Anchorage Museum (Alaska) oltre che membro della European Museum Academy. Curatore di svariate mostre internazionali, autore di svariati libri. Scrive spesso sui futuri del museo ed ha il suo blog: The Humanist Museum. Recentemente è stato riconosciuto dalla Presidenza della Repubblica Italiana cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia e dal Ministero della Cultura Francese Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres per il suo contributo nel campo della cultura.

A participatory museum site. The case of the MAR - Regional Archaeological Museum of Aosta.

A participatory museum site. The case of the MAR - Regional Archaeological Museum of Aosta.

by Sandro Debono , written on 20/02/2024
Categories: News Focus
Imagine a museum that is easy to understand, engaging for you and yours, requiring no specialized skills to interact with objects and content. Imagine a museum where you would feel comfortable, where you could find answers to varied questions that ar...
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Podcasts, audio guides, radio, music: what audio tools for the museum

Podcasts, audio guides, radio, music: what audio tools for the museum

by Sandro Debono , written on 18/05/2023
Categories: News Focus
The pandemic of COVID-19 now seems to be a thing of the past, but if there is one thing museums can safely take as a moral of those unprecedented times, it is the fact that digital matters. Indeed, we might add that the potential that digital holds i...
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What is a museum? Thoughts on the new definition

What is a museum? Thoughts on the new definition

by Sandro Debono , written on 05/09/2022
Categories: Opinions
Last week ICOM announced a new definition of museum to replace the one in place since 2007. The process was no stranger to controversy, not to mention resignation, with a definition with a dual purpose proposed in 2019 and sent backto the discussion ...
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Phygital: what does it mean? And what is a phygital museum?

Phygital: what does it mean? And what is a phygital museum?

by Sandro Debono , written on 26/07/2022
Categories: Opinions
Let's get straight to the point. Linguistically, the word phygital is a combination of the words physical ("physical") and digital ("digital") to indicate the ever-increasing experiential intersection and fusion between these two worlds. In...
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Artworks in the age of virtual between digital twins and NFT Phygital

Artworks in the age of virtual between digital twins and NFT Phygital

by Sandro Debono , written on 02/05/2022
Categories: Opinions
Not surprisingly, the editorial in the latest issue of The Burlington Magazine (March 2022) is devoted to art in the age of digital reproduction. Taking a cue from Walter Benjamin's 1936 essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reprodu...
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Museums and the hype around NFTs

Museums and the hype around NFTs

by Sandro Debono , written on 26/02/2022
Categories: Opinions
I have been thinking about this article for some time as I observed the ways and means by which museums have jumped on the hype bandwagon for NFTs. Some of this has probably been influenced by circumstances, particularly the hard-hit revenue ...
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Will museums have enough money to stay open?

Will museums have enough money to stay open?

by Sandro Debono , written on 08/05/2021
Categories: Opinions
This article has been in the works for some time since my first piece on this very fascinating topic in September 2020. For that article, I had chosen one question as the title. I am again choosing one question as the title, however, this t...
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Closed with open doors. Reflections on the immediate future of museums

Closed with open doors. Reflections on the immediate future of museums

by Sandro Debono , written on 18/10/2020
Categories: Opinions
A few months ago, as museums around the world ajar their doors waiting for the public to visit again, this phrase from Maira Kalman resonated even louder: "a museum visit is a search for beauty, truth and meaning in our lives. Go to the museum ...
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