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Museums have become increasingly contentious places, engaging with debates on issues such as repatriation, genocide, slavery, censorship, power and the treatment of human remains.

This conference will discuss how responding to such challenges can enable museums to depart from tradition and embrace different ways of thinking, working and developing new audiences.

Four keynote papers will give further depth to these themes, with poster presentations to expand on some of the issues and a discussion panel to debate whether museums should aim to be contentious, as well as what the impacts are of doing so. Selected papers are to be published in a special issue of Museum Management and Curatorship.

This is the sixth biennial University Museums in Scotland conference, drawing together a variety of people with professional, academic and community interests in museums in Scotland and elsewhere.