[Review of:] Delisse C. <i>The Metabolic Museum</i>. Moscow: Museum “Garage” Press, 2021. 136 p. ISBN 978-5-6045381-7-3
“The Metabolic Museum” by Clementine Delisse is regarded as one of the most influential museological studies of the last decade, guiding the museum’s current development and diversification strategy. Its significance is due to the combination of conceptual and practical developments related to the transformation of the Museum of World Cultures (Weltkulturen Museum) in Frankfurt am Main. Delisse’s research models not only the post-colonial development of ethnographic museums and their collections, but also the new operating principles for contemporary museums in general. The article examines the performative aspects of the concept of a “metabolic museum”, and analyzes the processing of the ideas of the actor-network theory into the concept of the agency of museum objects and museum collections. Museum-laboratory and museum-university are considered as the most promising forms for modern development. They present a consistent experience of remediation through interdisciplinary research and the integration of contemporary art as a media into the museum space. In this connection, it is necessary to develop a new museum architecture and infrastructure that will effectively solve the problems of cultural inclusion and the penetration of metamuseology into modern educational processes.