<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Mnemosophy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Proposing the Science of Public Memory]]></description><link>https://www.mnemosophy.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:51:16 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.mnemosophy.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Deaccessioning: being a profession means the strength to follow one’s mission]]></title><description><![CDATA[I am, it seems, poor company, easily disqualified by being labelled a “cultural Marxist,” even though one may rightly reject such ideological nonsense. Public institutions, at least in the European sense, must possess a public mind and public behaviour. The facets through which they demonstrate this are numerous; indeed, their entire nature should make this evident. Within the framework of a profession, various forms of misunderstanding - or even betrayal - of the basic values on which these...]]></description><link>https://www.mnemosophy.com/post/deaccessioning-being-a-profession-means-the-strength-to-follow-one-s-mission</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69de3785c87c857db1f62597</guid><category><![CDATA[Public Memory Insititution]]></category><category><![CDATA[Profession]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:49:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fdf65_e031c9566f8d4a24a5e4fc160059762f~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_750,h_562,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tomislav S. Šola</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can Memory Institutions Transcend Schizoid Reality?]]></title><description><![CDATA[As a former curator and (still) a theorist of heritage, I have written many things outside that safe curatorial and professorial refuge, struggling - of course, at my own risk and often to my own detriment - against their social autism and their fatal misunderstanding of the world. This struggle has led me to various, kindred, and often superior spirits: some of them while being a member of different award juries, others at the conferences and events and some, indeed, in literature. That is...]]></description><link>https://www.mnemosophy.com/post/can-memory-institutions-transcend-schizoid-reality</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69c43308dbf1d5b60132019d</guid><category><![CDATA[Public Memory Insititution]]></category><category><![CDATA[Society]]></category><category><![CDATA[Memory]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:13:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fdf65_f5e9a09ecc9740b4a5b2f394b61b28e5~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_800,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tomislav S. Šola</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[World of Heritage Encountering the Metaverse Industry]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1930, the German company "Echte Wagner" created a series of illustrations depicting how they envisioned the future would be. Source I...]]></description><link>https://www.mnemosophy.com/post/world-of-heritage-encountering-the-metaverse-industry</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67ffc0132503fbf3117bd266</guid><category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Profession]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 08:06:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fdf65_9b2297aa9fd74a6b82808b012c4d6b01~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_960,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tomislav S. Šola</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Welfare Society: A Sabotaged Ideal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rebel exhibition sets up in the Great Court of the British Museum. Photo by Amy Scaife The concept of a welfare society has been...]]></description><link>https://www.mnemosophy.com/post/the-welfare-society-a-sabotaged-ideal</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67f3ec11303022249c5d39bd</guid><category><![CDATA[Society]]></category><category><![CDATA[History]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 15:20:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fdf65_49dcb58eb8364da2a2768c2c7853b2e2~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_960,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tomislav S. Šola</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can Museums Fight Back? A Glimpse of Inspiration from Ecomuseums]]></title><description><![CDATA[The ecomuseum is not a universally applicable model, nor a quick fix for contemporary museum practice. Rather, it represents a profound...]]></description><link>https://www.mnemosophy.com/post/can-museums-fight-back-a-glimpse-of-inspiration-from-ecomuseums</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67c190c8e9892d8974eb8864</guid><category><![CDATA[Public Memory Insititution]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 10:40:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fdf65_55317b0d3e9c4d4e9661ddaab63c6118~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_960,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tomislav S. Šola</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cybernetic Declaration on Curators]]></title><description><![CDATA["We are here to do good to others. What others are doing here, I do not know"  (Wystan Hugh Auden, English poet) This caricature I liked...]]></description><link>https://www.mnemosophy.com/post/cybernetic-declaration-on-curators</link><guid isPermaLink="false">675ff63112873a7dbe62087a</guid><category><![CDATA[Profession]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:49:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fdf65_9f41a621e3ca49ac8c5aa002c674eac5~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_960,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tomislav S. Šola</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What EU unification meant for the noble unity of the equal?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since the early 1990s and for little more than a decade, approximately 20 million of Eastern Europe’s young, most ambitious, and likely...]]></description><link>https://www.mnemosophy.com/post/what-eu-unification-meant-for-the-noble-unity-of-the-equal</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6724980592ddb1d7ab7dd19c</guid><category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category><category><![CDATA[identity]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 08:59:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fdf65_88717ed73b354e8f96a7e105cbf2f0f4~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_960,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tomislav S. Šola</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI has an ally]]></title><description><![CDATA[Devalued, annihilated, betrayed world and the failure of collective experience (memory, monuments, heritage, museums) to help it, is what...]]></description><link>https://www.mnemosophy.com/post/ai-has-an-ally</link><guid isPermaLink="false">670f85299fca9b5c5ed8fa71</guid><category><![CDATA[Museums]]></category><category><![CDATA[Public Memory Insititution]]></category><category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 09:23:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fdf65_4bf55455a36649bf84f87d466b0dd540~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_960,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tomislav S. Šola</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[This time it is more at stake than just "trash in-trash out"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last year, attracted by the irresistible offer of Shanghai University and Ninth Nishan Forum of world Civilisations, I made the brief and...]]></description><link>https://www.mnemosophy.com/post/this-time-it-is-more-at-stake-than-just-trash-in-trash-out</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66cc18d3460278e34a6c98e5</guid><category><![CDATA[Profession]]></category><category><![CDATA[Museums]]></category><category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Memory]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 05:58:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fdf65_4095cbf53ff3452f924dc7de434b13ed~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_960,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tomislav S. Šola</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both truth and virtue should be served]]></title><description><![CDATA[Back in 2008, I took this slide to Girona, Spain for the lecture where I was trying to assist fellow professionals in defining what...]]></description><link>https://www.mnemosophy.com/post/both-truth-and-virtue-should-be-served</link><guid isPermaLink="false">664ca2217bc975a944a1bcb7</guid><category><![CDATA[History]]></category><category><![CDATA[Museums]]></category><category><![CDATA[Memory]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 13:36:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fdf65_d076143b6920440988eafc7a95f42dc0~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_960,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tomislav S. Šola</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The major task of public memory institutions is to provide understanding of the world]]></title><description><![CDATA[Understanding of the world is very much about choosing the vantage point, the provider of usable, filtered knowledge; the latter is...]]></description><link>https://www.mnemosophy.com/post/the-major-task-of-public-memory-institutions-is-to-provide-understanding-of-the-world</link><guid isPermaLink="false">663de7096bdcea759a368039</guid><category><![CDATA[Wisdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Memory]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2024 09:26:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fdf65_1f993ec5e86d4a67a16d3dec4211312d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_960,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tomislav S. Šola</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is published needs to be made available]]></title><description><![CDATA[Publishing books is an art in itself. I have written eight books in the domain of heritage (each presented in white frame if with...]]></description><link>https://www.mnemosophy.com/post/what-is-published-needs-to-be-made-available</link><guid isPermaLink="false">660cf4e0dea2901781de84c7</guid><category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 06:24:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fdf65_7e013acb82874894b22548e90fc5741c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_960,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tomislav S. Šola</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing the World – Key to curatorial response ]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have often used this slide since 2014 as one of those that served as a reminder to criticize the state of the world. It has been...]]></description><link>https://www.mnemosophy.com/post/knowing-the-world-key-to-curatorial-response</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65c5cf571fb4d6149924acbe</guid><category><![CDATA[Public Memory Insititution]]></category><category><![CDATA[Museums]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2024 07:11:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fdf65_8493dcd0e3d042e99efe52781607db7c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_960,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tomislav S. Šola</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all potential refugees]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have used this slide many times for my different audiences, students primarily but professionals too (and internationally), to lay a...]]></description><link>https://www.mnemosophy.com/post/we-are-all-potential-refugees</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64880caf7ef206f0ac663312</guid><category><![CDATA[Wisdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Memory]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2023 06:32:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fdf65_ca2be11d2ea84a1287afbc997d68981b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_960,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tomislav S. Šola</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The profession that never came to be]]></title><description><![CDATA[Back in the mid-1990s I was still enthusiastically teaching my students that there is a new profession they will help to create, - the...]]></description><link>https://www.mnemosophy.com/post/the-profession-that-never-came-to-be</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63d25dca480bcf3443363aeb</guid><category><![CDATA[Public Memory Insititution]]></category><category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2023 11:08:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fdf65_a8f7a513a3254f83a7866c93f599f0e3~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_960,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tomislav S. Šola</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public Memory in a Deluded Society – notes of a lecturer]]></title><description><![CDATA[After fifteen years spent in the museum sector (curator, director, PhD in Museology), I have accepted the offer to continue my career as...]]></description><link>https://www.mnemosophy.com/post/public-memory-in-a-deluded-society-notes-of-a-lecturer</link><guid isPermaLink="false">637c9566d1d97d4907dd0519</guid><category><![CDATA[Memory]]></category><category><![CDATA[Public Memory Insititution]]></category><category><![CDATA[Museums]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:29:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fdf65_0dc666791c4145a1836f79d10359433d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_603,h_869,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tomislav S. Šola</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest, by Laura Raicovich]]></title><description><![CDATA[Laura Raicovich has written a book which would be a must for all pre sent or future professionals, not only in art museums but wider. For...]]></description><link>https://www.mnemosophy.com/post/culture-strike-art-and-museums-in-an-age-of-protest-by-laura-raicovich</link><guid isPermaLink="false">636371170d2c3949b500faed</guid><category><![CDATA[Museums]]></category><category><![CDATA[Public Memory Insititution]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2022 07:45:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fdf65_9701acb35fa448fda2cef89520f5c657~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tomislav S. Šola</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The value of paraphrasing “Black box” in understanding museums]]></title><description><![CDATA[When it appears in my texts, the syntagm "Black box" is meant as a metaphor for a flight recorder device in an aircraft, alluding...]]></description><link>https://www.mnemosophy.com/post/the-value-of-paraphrasing-black-box-in-understanding-museums</link><guid isPermaLink="false">635f79b1f6fbb5b11a0c46c1</guid><category><![CDATA[Public Memory Insititution]]></category><category><![CDATA[Memory]]></category><category><![CDATA[Museums]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2022 07:35:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fdf65_2fc38b4836af42838572de5cb9d389b1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_960,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tomislav S. Šola</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good museums make the world better]]></title><description><![CDATA[All good museums are created to make the world a better place. And, they try hard. The less good ones serve their own curators and, at...]]></description><link>https://www.mnemosophy.com/post/good-museums-make-the-world-better</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6331fec1b76230ffdd566ca9</guid><category><![CDATA[Museums]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2022 19:41:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fdf65_b81f9ff257c04149a2480c0f6d33bc83~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_396,h_371,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tomislav S. Šola</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do You]]></title><description><![CDATA[Encountering the new meme “You do you” brings a new understanding of the world. That is, it may happen if we understand “you” with some...]]></description><link>https://www.mnemosophy.com/post/you-do-you</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63217ace89d284ad5cc5e8fc</guid><category><![CDATA[Memory]]></category><category><![CDATA[Museums]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wisdom]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2022 06:59:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fdf65_1c88ebd24559465baff7340ce2c60b9e~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_801,h_399,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tomislav S. Šola</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>