Museo Q: Museology in motion

The definition of ‘museum’ has changed, though some prefer to cling to that of a hundred years ago. The tension between what a museum is and what it does will continue, because the relationships and discourses we build among objects, communities and spaces remain dynamic as those same elements transform. Highlighting certain voices from museology and queer theory, this article tells the brief history of the Museo Q in Colombia. This museum, recognised as such by national cultural authorities, has no walls or extensive collections. Thus, its architecture is sometimes temporal, sometimes itinerant, sometimes transmutable. Considering its particular relationship with time and space, this article imagines a museology in motion, a museology that values emotion, failure, contingency, and movement: a museology in motion for an alternative future.