Language: English
Date: May 16, 2021
Listening to: Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen


 

This month I did something that I haven’t done since I started checking my emails every day and news feeds even more often: reading a book in just a day. The book that managed to break through my device’s stranglehold was “Global Trends in Museum Diplomacy: Post-Guggenheim Developments” by Natalia Grincheva. I was surprised to find that academic title hid a riveting deep dive into “the transformation of museums from publicly or privately funded heritage institutions into active players in the economic sector of culture.” This book made me reconsider my own assumptions about the role of museums and my own role as a Fulbright Scholar as non-state actors in international diplomacy. 

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