01181nas a2200133   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002100001800043245007900061300000800140490000800148520087700156022001401033       2020                            d1 aFlorence Itie00aICH and Museums When the spirit comes to the matter under the palaver tree  a3890 v1213 aIn the post-colonial era, museums of the 21st century are committed to rethinking their roles and functions in society, the nature and meaning of the objects they preserve and the role of expertise. The new forms of museums that are developing in the global cities, by the virtue of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) that embraces diversity, are spaces open to the political and cultural repertoires of continents that seem absent in the old museum world, stemming from a colonial Europe.Currently we are experiencing a shock in our cultural and digitized societies, risking the standardization of culture. Thanks to ICH entering into the museums, there are platforms for conviviality and multiplicity of approaches to knowledge through physical proximity and verbal and sensory confrontation. The museum that is open to ICH may be the  palaver tree  of future societies.  a0042-8523