With their deep roots in the colonial past of the world and their traditional purpose of safeguarding cultural treasures from all over the world, these European Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums now add a new dimension to their mission and purpose: use their safe spaces, their treasures and insights for strategies to address the planetary crises of today and tomorrow. TAKING CARE is a very disruptive, important and urgently needed shift of paradigm of these iconic institutions of Europe’s colonial past.
Steven Engelsman, former Director of the Weltmuseum Wien