Conclusion

In this conclusion, we revisit some of the key findings of this book’s analytical/interpretative cuts into the online circulation of museum collections. The pedagogical challenges museums face when collection knowledge is appropriated by groups whose political aims threaten social solidarity and democratic values are discussed. Highlighted are the ways in which collection knowledge is both customised and open-ended when digitisations, narratives and research findings flow between multiple platforms and are transmitted through interfaces including home feeds or lists. We conclude that curatorial agency simultaneously becomes humanist and subjective; machinic and computational; and imbricated in more-than-human ontological formations that insert digitisations and museum knowledge in multi-scalar geographies and temporalities extending from deep geological time into unforeseen futures.