Museums that created the 22nd century: A letter from a future museumgoer

Dear ICOM readers from 2022,

Today is the first day of 2122 and I just walked home from one of my favourite museums, where I visited an exhibition about how the Black Lives Matter movement shaped the course of the 21st century, harvested some winter vegetables from the community garden and voted for the next member of the Inter-species Advisory Committee. I plan to return next week to participate in a future programming assembly and to repair a pair of jeans in the circularity suite. As I walked home, I reflected on the evolution of museums and how they became the organisations we know today…