Museums of today face the challenge of exploring and dealing with new
topics such as immigration, integration and social differences. This paper argues
that these new topics bring forth a new, postmodern paradigm for the museum
as a contemporary institution. Exploiting concrete examples from a research
project on the social development in a multi-ethnic social housing area in Greve,
south of Copenhagen, the paper identifies and discusses three characteristics of the
postmodern museum project: a pluralistic approach to contemporary topics, the
inclusion of new user groups in constructing both the field of research and the field
of communication, and the need to be aware of the context of each statement,
whether material or verbal.