My dear colleague and friend Lukas Fuchsgruber will present his important and freshly published book (in German) which I edited this week.
October 28, 2025, 7:30 PM
Architecture Forum of TU Berlin
Straße des 17. Juni 152 (Ernst-Reuter-Platz)
No registration required
Museums are social spaces. The way they stage, position, and communicate history and heritage is inherently political – and often contested. In recent decades, critical voices have increasingly called for reflection on provenance, power structures, and representation. But how does the power of museums shift when they intersect with digital information systems and the internet? How do strategies of knowledge dissemination, historical interpretation, inclusion and exclusion, and the (in)visibility of social structures transform in the context of digitization? Lukas Fuchsgruber’s new book explores these questions and links the discourse on museums as societal spaces with the politics of data. The book emerged from the collaborative project Museums and Society – Mapping the Social (2020–2024), funded by the Berlin University Alliance.
About the author:
Lukas Fuchsgruber is an art historian. He worked as a research associate at the Technische Universität Berlin and held positions at museums in Nuremberg and Berlin. His research focuses on digitization in museums, photo archives, and the economics of art. He has contributed to several open source software projects for digital archives (cooArchi, Art Doc Archive). Since 2025, he has been part of the Open Cultural Data team at Wikimedia Deutschland.
The presentation by Lukas Fuchsgruber will be followed by a panel discussion with Anna Schäffler, Yann LeGall and the author, which I will moderate. This is wonderful as they all do very crucial research!
More information about Yann LeGall and his research
