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The book gathers 43 new contributions by international authors\u2014I was honored to be one of them\u2014from various fields of museum practice, theory, education, art, and architecture outline concrete visions of a museum of the future: confident and doubtful, critical, clearly positioned, and subjective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book The Museum of the Future: 43 Contributions to the Discussion on the Future of the Museum was published in 1970 so as to present some ideas on the expected and desired development of this institution. 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