The Porous Museum: The Politics of Art, Rupture and Recycling in Modern Romania

A study of a national museum through different iterations and political regimes, arguing for the idea of the museum as a porous institution, transcending boundaries of politics, ethics and aesthetics

Gabriela Nicolescu is an Exhibition Maker, a Writer and a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, UK. She has published in Critique of Anthropology, the Journal of Design History, the Journal of Material Culture, World Art, East Central Europe and Anthropology & Aging.