How you can activate the soft power of your museums | Ngaire Blankenberg | TEDxHamburg

Ngaire Blankenberg on how you can activate the soft power of your museums at TEDxHamburg.de (www.tedxhamburg.de).
Ngaire Blankenberg is internationally recognized for her work planning innovative museums and revitalizing urban spaces. She is co-author, with Gail Lord, of Cities, Museums and Soft Power (AAM Press 2015) which urges museums to play a more vital role in creating equitable, inclusive and empowering cities. She is co-founder of the Museum of AIDS in Africa- a pan-African project which collects, preserves, interprets and remembers the history and impact of AIDS on the continent.
As European Director and Principal Consultant at Lord Cultural Resources, the world's largest museum and cultural professional practice, Ngaire advises museums, the private sector and governments throughout the world on ways to develop their cultural assets for public benefit.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@merilrasmussen]

So true, museums can facilitate positive change and healing or they can perpetuate the oppressive status quo. Brilliantly put, Ms Blankenberg.

[@iterartis509]

I couldn't agree more. Museums do have power and can attract and influence people. I also try to show, in my UA-cam channel, that museums can be places where people have fun, no matter what's their social background or what they studied. Museums, history and art can truly make you happy :)

[@christophersunner5246]

Very well presented! She clues us in on ways that museums can change us and how we can change museums.

[@catfromjapan3]

That really was a great talk. Thank you

[@cyberigs]

Interesting talk. 😀👍

[@loreleiramirez2798]

Can I find my thesis in a museum?

[@MrIdontlikemondays]

So much nonsense... She has no clue

[@owencarter3443]

Interesting talk but not particularly useful for small museums.