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I am currently the director general of Pinacoteca di Brera, an Italian. The COVID-19 pandemic has allowed me to connect many of the seemingly separate arguments I have struggled with for most of my professional life. So in these months when Italy was in strict lockdown, I asked myself what would—or should—a museum look like in a post-COVID world, what is its role, and how should it be supported? This reflection ponders on the challenges we are facing and describes a proposal, starting with my autobiography.
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Bradburne, J.M. (2023). Postface: From Visitors to Users—COVID-19 Accelerating Change. In: Redaelli, E. (eds) Visiting the Art Museum. Sociology of the Arts . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12089-3_10
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