Histori
sches
Museum
Frankfurt

The Project

Commoning the Museum: City Museums for a Socially Just Society

How can museums convey a multi-voiced and inclusive historical culture amid the pressures of radical political forces? The Historisches Museum Frankfurt and Stadtmuseum Dresden are embarking on a journey to open museums as spaces for social cohesion, actively engaging audience groups that have previously been underrepresented. This raises the question: what constitutes historical culture – and how can a clear vision of it help to strengthen democratic values such as plurality and inclusion?
Collaborative learning, new forms of cooperation, and the considered use of digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, aim to create new spaces of possibility: for shared decision-making, creation, and exchange – in line with the guiding principle of “commoning the museum.”