Towards a Museum without keyboard, or mouse, a museum freed from any sort of screen, one with ears that can listen, an open Museum where the exhibition itself is born from its visitors’ womb and reflects their humanity, as would the ferryman, protector of all creations and yet not jealous enough to exclude them from our exchanges.
Towards a technologically-minded Museum, but one leaving more room to humans, inspiring awe to the visitors, enthusiasm to the curators and mediators, the guardians and those responsible for exhibits, enough to make them want to work together.
I dreamt of this museum many times without being able to visit it, but then, in 2011, at the Arts Decoratifs, I realized the dream could come true. Eventually, the Museomix community appeared to me, in its disorderly but conscientious, involved yet multiple, free and enthusiastic though rebellious, respectful, smart and united way.
Today I can see it, on the 3rd day of Museomix 2013, in its 3rd edition, defending its construction, confronting its ambitions to the visitors’ expectations, and I feel that the rules of the game have yet to evolve, to fit this community of friends and relatives, of founding fathers, but also of total strangers who came here out of passion, curiosity or simply by chance. The year ahead is full of promises, the organization is getting structured and we are inventing tools to be neither sponsors nor providers, to answer no invites for tenders, so that the museum we dreamt of, still unaware it is no longer a mere museum, comes to life.
Christophe
