ABSTRACT
The two decades that have opened the twenty-first century have been shaped by violent conflict and political upheaval. The locus of the so-called ‘western’ museum should be re-thought at a time when the fractured pieces of society are re-forming in ways that have, almost without exception, caught politicians, economists, and opinion-formers unawares. Museums are well placed to respond creatively to an emergent narrative of destructive globalisation and the sense of disenfranchisement that it has produced.
