Head of National Museum Lukeš: Museums must look for new interesting topics to attract attention

Michal Lukeš, Director General of the National Museum, said that museums need to seek out new themes and innovative ways to present their collections so that visitors enjoy their experience and find information that is interesting and relevant to them. If a museum fails to do this, people will begin to see it as an institution of the past, he said. Museums have been collecting, preserving, and exhibiting objects for centuries, and through their presentations, they educate society and popularize science. But it must be acknowledged, he stressed, that society’s thinking—and the technology it uses—has changed.