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Transitions towards the new museum: the mise-en-scène of the bicentenary in Colombia

This article discusses and analyses three exhibitions that focus on the Colombian bicentennial celebrations housed in the Museo Nacional, the Museo de la Independencia-Casa del Florero and the Iglesia Museo Santa Clara (all in Bogotá). In all three cases the occasion elicited generational enquiries and actual changes in cultural policy, signaling a transition towards the concept of the new museum, characterized by different conceptions of the viewing public and of the relationship between public and museum. In addition, the new museum marks the entry into the museum space of a wide gamut of new technologies and participatory forms in its effort to seduce the public. When addressing some of the polemics and discussions generated by and around these exhibitions, this article reflects on the place of both the traditional and the new museum as a site for the inscription of national narrative scripts and rethinking of the nation's cultural heritage. While charting these debates, it also gives space to reflection on the tectonics of neoliberalism and globalization and their challenges to concepts of “the national”, the reconfiguration of national destinies, and discussions around new social actors and movements.