In 2019 we published the first volume of The Museum Is Not Enough, which we conceived as a platform to reflect on and discuss some of the beliefs and concerns that define the CCA’s curatorial activity—why and how it works—and, by extension, the role of cultural institutions vis-à-vis society. Claiming that the museum is not enough meant asking what a museum should be and do.
In this second volume, the discussion focuses on how the institution works out and on these questions by rethinking the tools used to conceive its programs and build its relationship with different communities and audiences. Underlying this reflection is the conviction that the museum’s activity can’t be constructed from a fixed position. Here, the museum gets outside its physical walls, to explore on-site, to talk with people, to connect and activate collaborators, to design conditions for different forms of dialogue to happen on the ground.
Edited by Giovanna Borasi, Albert Ferré, Francesco Garutti, and Jayne Kelley
With contributions from Lev Bratishenko, Sandrine Colard, Claudio Gulli, Corinna Gardner, Oulimata Gueye, Silvia Gutiérrez De la Torre, Jarrod Ray Hore, Hester Keijser, Renato Leotta, Andrea Lissoni, Ari Marcopoulos, Valeria Meiller, Gili Merin, Marina Oba, Mariana Pestana, Paul R. Spitzzeri, David Stevenson, Ivy Thompson, Jennifer B. Thompson, Philip Tidwell, Hannah Turner, and Akram Zaatari Graphic design by (Studio) Jonathan Hares
Published in French as Le musée ne suffit pas, Num. 10 à 14
Co-published with Lenz
24 x 31 cm
Softcover, 224 pages
The French version will be available in August 2025. Reserve your copy by writing to us at books@cca.qc.ca.
