«Are museums outdated? Have screens made them old-fashioned? Quite the opposite. The number of museums has risen from 22,000 in 1975 to nearly 100,000 today. Blockbuster exhibitions are almost always full and the major museums continue to break visitor records every year.
The Louvre in Paris tops the list, with no fewer than 8.8 million visitors in 2023, followed by the Vatican, the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Museum of the Republic of Korea, according to data collected by The Art Newspaper. And more and more cities want to make the most of the influence conferred by these prestigious venues.
It has to be said that in the space of just a few decades, museums have undergone a profound transformation. Originally created to present princely and royal collections in Renaissance Europe to a privileged few, museums have since become much more democratic. Fine art and history have long since ceased to be their only fields of expertise. To attract new audiences, museums have not hesitated to convert to digital technologies, sometimes radically transforming the visitor experience.
And even if heated arguments remain about the return of objects acquired during the colonial period, museums have adapted to reflect the concerns of the time, increasingly opening their exhibitions to women artists and revising their curatorial approach in the light of current debates, and the demands of indigenous populations.
In 2024, going to a museum is still
a special, widely appreciated experience. There’s nothing quite like it». Saiba mais.
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