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Inserted into the official calendar of the France-Portugal 2022 Season, this initiative bears the seal of the CeiED - Universidade Lusofona and is organized by Marta Jecu and Sofia Marçal (MUHNAC). The Portugal-France Season 2022 is a bilateral diplomacy initiative between Portugal and France, which aims to deepen cultural relations between these two countries. In the context of a recent preoccupation with extra-European heritage, the history of scientific museology and the colonial and postcolonial thought associated with it, the institution museum and the way in which it frames history, have been intensely scrutinized. The project analyzes museums as a means of viewing heritage: beyond the institution itself, the museum represents a medium for communicating information. The project is a reflection on the question of heritage – personal, global – and aims to think about this question with a multidisciplinary and dynamic methodology. The project considers this question from a historical and recent perspective by examining how contemporary art has integrated this "media" and gradually reformed and democratized "the museological device". Contemporary art has been identified in the field of new museology as a creative factor which, once introduced into museums as a tool for rethinking museological display, can stimulate critical public involvement in the assimilation of museological content. The project therefore aims to map and theorize emerging methodologies that engage contemporary art for the reinterpretation of the "museological device". The exhibition is part of a bilateral multidisciplinary project, organized by Marta Jecu, which is integrated and supported by the France-Portugal Season 2022.