Archaeologies of the Present and Museums of the Future, or how to Open up the Relationship between Heritage and the Common Good

Con autorización de la editorial para este capítulo.Few territories have been more explored than the province whose boundaries are demarcated through the concepts of museum, heritage, technology and the market. Therefore, it will never stop being paradoxical that we do not have an explanation for a surprising and symptomatic phenomenon: 18th century museums not displaying exceptional assets, but rather stones, bones, shells, feathers, maps, models, microscopes, looms, ploughs…What are these ordinary things doing in a museum? They are in the museum to reconfigure the sign of the times, to invent a common past and present. Enlightened people call into question the boundaries of the social by disorganising the arrangement of things in an open space