✚ What is a museum today: an institution, a medium, a place of memory, or a social machine? ✚ How have contemporary museum models and practices evolved from the "museum," the reliquary, and the cabinet of curiosities? ✚ Which functions are considered basic (preservation, research, education, access), and how do they conflict with or reinforce each other? ✚ How do museums produce and/or reflect individual and collective identities? ✚ How do the ideas of new, critical, and reflexive museology change the daily work of a museum curator? ✚ How do local contexts of non-European museums shape different models of management, collecting, and publicity? ✚ How to measure the effect of participation: what is considered the success of participatory practices, and how can we avoid "participation for the sake of participation"? ✚ What is the social mission of a museum as an agent of change, and where are its limits?

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