From the great story to Postmodernity. The decolonization of museums

Abstract

Postmodernity’s main mark is the fall of metanarratives, giving way to the existence of micro-narratives, minimal truths adapted to places, ways of life of small social groups, marginal populations, silenced ethnic groups, while feminist, ecologist, sexual, ethno-racial, urban political forms and identities are emerging... It is a crisis of hegemonic Eurocentric and Westernist knowledge structures marked by a strong anti-colonial impulse. This process requires the decolonisation of thought, education and cultural institutions, such as the museum, which is beginning to rethink both its exhibitions and the presentation of its collections from this decolonial perspective promoted by ICOM and cultural policies. But in
this rethinking we can find forms of relationship between diverse cultures that were not always forms of subjugation, appropriation or colonial domination.