Museums Tomorrow

As Abu Dhabi endeavors to become a cultural hub of global reach, it is looking broadly for inspiration and thinking carefully about the institutions it hopes to create. How do museums of world art differ from museums of ethnography, culture, or history—or do they? What social and economic conditions gave rise to the great museums of the world, and what makes them flourish or falter? What can we learn from museums past and present as we envision the museums of the future? Our distinguished panel will discuss these key questions about the design, creation and evolution of museums of art and culture, and illuminate them with telling examples.

Moderator
Mariët Westermann Provost, NYU Abu Dhabi

Panelists
Philippe de Montebello Director Emeritus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Fiske Kimball Professor of the History and Culture of Museums, NYU
Neil MacGregor Director, The British Museum
Kavita Singh Associate Professor of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
John Onians Founder , School of World Art and Museology, University of East Anglia