Towards reparative museology

Abstract

As Édouard Glissant never ceased to reiterate, each of us needs the memory of the other. This is not a matter of charity or compassion. It is a condition for the survival of our world. If we want to share the world’s beauty, he would add, we ought to learn to be united with all its suffering. We will have to learn to remember together, and in this doing, to repair together the world’s fabric and its visage. (Achille Mbembe in Bangstad, 2019)