*to receive the full amount of ECTS, please registere here too: https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2025W/S05748/

Since their creation, museums and their institutional structures have been in a constant state of change. As social institutions, they are also affected by political reforms, technical innovations, economic changes and the climate crisis. Their significance and function are repeatedly and somewhat slowly readjusted in relation to these transformation processes. Currently, the focus is on dealing with colonial heritage as well as on putting diversity, digitization, and sustainability into practice – and on rethinking organizations accordingly.

The lecture series will shed light on the institution „museum“ from seven spheres of activity in this interdependent and sometimes conflict-laden relationship. It will explore how the the lines of transformation outlined above affect museums.

- written exam on site: participants will have to answer one question per lecture

- additional date for the exam: January 15, 2025

- Please reach out to us if you have specific needs in the context of the exam!

The seminar "transformation..." is a separate course. You can participate both in the seminar and the lecture series, or in one of them only. Either way, please register with Felix Koberstein's classes and mine to receive the full amount of ECTS.