What role can and should the major universal museums, but also the humanities and social sciences, play in the future development of metropolises like Berlin, London, and New York? What contribution can they make to the peaceful coexistence of different communities and the challenges that come with it? One of Neil MacGregor's timely theses would be: “This is why there are museums: we live in Babel and our task is to ensure that the history of Babel comes to a good end.”
The Forum Transregionale Studien’s series of publications with the Berlin publishing house Matthes & Seitz will be continued in the coming year with writings on philology and freedom by Sheldon Pollock and on the role of Islam in the German-Jewish imagination by Susannah Heschel.
Globale Sammlungen für globalisierte Städte
Neil MacGregor’s essay “Global Collections for Globalized Cities” is the first volume in a new publication series of the Forum Transregionale Studien.
Promptly upon the start of his directorship of the Humboldt-Forum, Neil MacGregor’s essay “Global Collections for Globalized Cities” was published as the first volume of a new publication series of the Forum Transregionale Studien. Herrmann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Chairman of the Forum’s Members’ Assembly, wrote the afterword; the translation was done by Stefanie Rentsch, head of the Forum’s Communication and Publications Department.
You will find additional information here (in German).
And here is the press release (pdf / in German).
