Mining the Museum in an Age of Migration

The volume "The Postcolonial Museum" examines how we can conceive of a ‘postcolonial museum’ in the contemporary epoch of mass migrations, the internet and digital technologies. In particular, the essay by Anne Ring Petersen states that artistic interventions such as those of Fred Wilson and Yinka Shonibare are capable of disrupting the traditional order of objects in Western museums and of questioning naturalised understandings of history.