Ken Arnold
Ken Arnold
director, Medical Museion, Copenhagen University
Opening doors
A month after lockdown, Danish museums are shakily getting back on their feet. Ken Arnold gives a sneak peek into the new normal
The best of times, the worst of times
After the pandemic, can museums help reinvent social closeness or will they be seen as a pre-corona indulgence?
What lies at the heart of creative curatorial practice?
Are museums and galleries palaces of things, or resorts for people? When I was a museum studies student in Leicester in the 1990s, this was the almost endlessly debated question. A satisfactory, if unexciting, conclusion that we often reached held that the two were inseparable – people in museums could best be reached through things. …
Courting sucess
The Fitzwilliam Museum, CambridgeHas a £12m building project given the Fitzwilliam Museum the contemporary feel needed to tempt the public in?
Courting Success
The Fitzwilliam Museum, CambridgeHas a £12m building project given the Fitzwilliam Museum the contemporary feel needed to tempt the public in?