ABOUT MUSEUMVIEWS

An independent platform for museums, heritage, and public culture. Established 2003.

Museums are never merely places where things are kept. They are where societies arrange memory, contest history, and decide what deserves to be carried forward.

Founded in 2003 by Homa Taj, museologist, writer, and artist, MUSEUMVIEWS examines the public life of art and cultural heritage. Through essays, interviews, and cultural criticism, it explores how museums shape our understanding of the past, how collections acquire meaning, and how history is preserved, interpreted, disputed, or forgotten.

With particular attention to the people and ideas behind cultural institutions, MUSEUMVIEWS considers the responsibilities of museums in contemporary society, from preservation and public trust to questions of identity, representation, and power.

In 2014, Homa founded International Museum Professionals Day (IMPD), an initiative dedicated to recognizing the expertise, commitment, and often invisible labor of those who sustain museums and cultural heritage. It reflects a conviction central to MUSEUMVIEWS: that culture is sustained as much by people as by objects.

Beyond her work in museology and cultural criticism, Homa is a painter and playwright whose creative practice engages with performance, memory, and the human imagination.

Her paintings, theatrical works, exhibitions, and artistic biography can be explored at homataj.com.

MUSEUMVIEWS remains a place for close observation, independent thought, and, when circumstances require it, a few inconvenient questions.