The museum is changing. Internally, externally. In the face of public demand, in the current socio-political context, in the rise of with efforts to decolonise its entrenched narratives and structures. But what of imagination. Yet our image of this entity has remained remarkably persistent. The imagined museum continues to exist as a revered, monumental portrait of cultural heritage, a fixed point, a colossal space. The colonial epistemologies remian embedded in the museum’s inherited organisational form, curtailing our imagination of an otherwise. 


Would there be ‘museum’ if the idea is reimagined from the outside in, from bottom to top, from opaque to transparent, from portrait to landscape? If A child’s image, an artisan’s image, an indiginous person’s image could obscure and unsettle what a museum could/ should/ can be, it might help us collectively rethink this entity. 

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If the very anatomy of the museum is colonial as its imagination, measures will still be a stopgap solution, rendering a rather ship of theseus paradox, constantly replacing parts but retaining the same essence and continually navigating within the limits of coloniality. But if we do not begin with ‘museum’, could other forms become imaginable, another vessel can be visalised?