‘Collaborative Projects as Means to Transcend Western Epistemologies’

Abstract

In the last three decades, museums and museological practices that are fundamentally based on Western knowledge systems have been strongly questioned by a collective that includes Indigenous Peoples, political activists, representatives of civil society and scholars. In the historiographic reconstructions promoted by the academy, one of the touchstones is the so-called ‘new’ museology of the mid- 1980s (Vergo 1989).