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How can museums activate the past in our present? Alexandra Munroe, Samsung Senior Curator of Asian Art and Senior Adviser, Global Arts at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation - Moderator Antonia Carver, Director of Art Jameel Wanda Nanibush, Curator of Indigenous Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Shahzia Sikander, artist Dr. Apinan Poshyananda, Chief Executive and Artistic Director of the Bangkok Art Biennale Has contemporary art become its own orthodoxy? If so, how might objects from the past be used, in a museum context, to challenge this and to open up a wider conversation about art and culture that embraces different histories, geographies and new voices? Moderating the panel discussion, ‘How can museums activate the past in our present?’, Alexandra Munroe, Samsung Senior Curator of Asian Art and Senior Adviser of Global Arts at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, and Interim Director of Curatorial Affairs for the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi project, was joined by: Wanda Nanibush, Curator of Indigenous Art, Art Gallery of Ontario; the contemporary artist 71