Introduction: Challenging the silences: Confronting taboos in museums and museology

Abstract

By naming "The Power of Museums" as the theme for its 26th General Conference in Prague (Czechia), the International Council of Museums (ICOM) gave its members, national committees, international committees and regional alliances the opportunity to develop themes highlighting the role of museums to counter the world's major upheavals.After the intervening three years of pandemic and dissension, it was a rich and varied program signalling the resilience of the museum sector.Yet the theme chosen by ICOFOM (the International Committee for Museology) for its meetings questioned this "power" by discussing "how museums and museology could also have the potential to take power away, to disempower, by preventing the discussion of sensitive subjects" (ICOFOM, 2022).In other words, ICOFOM's symposium invited participants to discuss Taboos in Museology.

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