The Rise of the Therapeutic Museum

This book considers when and why respite rooms, emotional support brochures, well-being guides, psychological consultants, and care days become common features in the museum of art. Kraynak poses and answers this question, arguing that under its rightful ambition to decolonize––i.e. to rectify past and present inequalities–– the museum of the Global North is gradually replacing a commitment to knowledge, teaching, and learning with a focus upon care, healing and well-being (the “therapeutic”). W