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MUSEUMS OF THE FUTURE

We talked, discussed and thought about the future of museums with Future Educators: Museums of the Future -  European Union - European Year of Youth  (EY2022). While robots have started to work as museum professionals in museums (Ameca, Museum of the Future), can museum educators (K-12 Educators) become robots in cooperation with museums and schools, perhaps in a shorter time a few years from now? Robots that can appeal to all age groups and lead them to think… Can robots and AI (artificial intelligence) replace the current educators and museum staff? How do the school groups and parents react about this situation? 
European Union, European Year of Youth 2022, Museums of the Future, Speaker: Destina Hande Cil
As Art&Town, we have been involved in a conference series: 'Museums of the Future' within the scope of the European Year of Youth at Yildiz Technical University these days -with pleasure-, while we are working on ARTT LAB ( @artt____researchlab ). We came together with our valuable academicians and students. We had researchers from other universities, including Ozyegin University, who attended our conference. Thanks again to everyone! You can think of our conference as open discussion panels of museums. There are still question marks about the future research of museums, and even in many cultures, when an antique object is seen, expressions like these "it belongs in a museum!" continue to be used. However, the obligation of museums is not antiques. Museums have already broken these patterns. It is necessary to explain this to every audience, think about it and discuss it. We try to do the same.

Destina Hande Cil (Founder of ART&TOWN): "We present ARTT LAB as a lab-space to encourage thinking, researching and creating about the Future of Museology." The future of museums is one of the most important items in the creative industries. Museums have a great role in the struggle against the climate crisis (We have mentioned before that Sharm-El Sheikh Museum can provide an effective use area for COP27, as in the exhibition process of Glasgow Science Center at COP26), in the contribution of cultural tourism to the economy by country, and in raising awareness of the society about the future and the problems of the future. However, for all the positive/negative effects of museums, sustainable planning must be done for the upcoming processes. Taking the following example: The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao (Spain) and Jeff Koons' Puppy. The Musée du Louvre, the Palais de Tokyo and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao have begun to take steps to become more eco-friendly. However, museums are still debating what to do to address the 'visitor travel and transportation' problem, which remains the main source of pollution. The irrigation system of Jeff Koons' Puppy, located on the front of The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, has been redesigned in recent months. This gigantic living statue, consisting of 40,000 plants and standing in front of the museum, was of particular interest. The director of the museum, Mr. Vidarte said: "We are now able to control the volume of water needed with sensors on the sculpture." Switching to LED lighting in 2018 has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 400 tons per year. Great progress has been made. What about other countries?

Photograph: The Guggenheim Bilbao, Jeff Koons' Puppy
Director General of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Mr. Vidarte, explained that about three years ago, the Spanish Flagship Museum produced 4,300 tons of CO2, "which is equivalent to what 150 families consume per year." Museums in France are also increasingly putting greening and sustainability at the top of their significant issues. Universcience, which includes the Palais de la Découverte and Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris, makes achieving carbon neutrality by 2030 a point of honor goal. Symbolically, the government agency, which has halved its car fleet, has also banned its employees from air travel for any business trip in Europe under six hours.

UNESCO report: museums around the world in the face of COVID-19
The future of museums has to be green and sustainable. Let's think about it: When we look at the 2021 REGIONAL CLASSIFICATION figures of UNESCO, the number of museums in the world in 2021 is approximately 103,842. At the end of the year, we see a note in the booklet titled Creative Industries-Museums: "China has added 400 new museums in 2021, including the world's largest planetarium (they're talking about an area of ​​over 40,000 square meters), the Shanghai Astronomy Museum." In this case, consider the museum numbers of 2022 and whether sustainability planning was made while establishing a museum...
EY2022 at Yildiz Technical University
Check-out our presentation in here: MUSEUMS OF THE FUTURE PRESENTATION

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