The Museum of Ice Cream. The Museum of Selfies. 29Rooms. Each of these venues offers outstanding opportunities for social media-worthy snapshots. But are they really museums? And what is their cultural value?
Traditionally, museums are institutions of learning. “The relationship between people and art has changed,” explains Tair Mamedov, co-founder of the Museum of Selfies in Los Angeles. “Now people don’t want to just be a silent consumer, they want to be a part of the art.”