The following white paper offers a statement from the PALAMUSTO Consortium Members about their perspective on the palace-museum as a specific museum type. The paper’s content benefits from the knowledge and skills brought into the project by its senior research members. More importantly, it integrates the whole experience PALAMUSTO’s senior and early-stage researchers gathered during these four years of research, training weeks, lectures, visits with external experts, discussions and confrontations between different points of view. The paper is a manifesto-like contribution to the way the palace-museum type should be considered and to the role of one of its most important professionals: the curator. The text is divided in four main sections: Towards a New History of the Palace, Research Themes of the Palace-Museum, the Curator’s Role and Mediation for the Community.
*Redacted by António Nunes Pereira (PSML), Uta Coburger (SSG), and Esther Griffin (ESR02, ESR representative), edited by Krista De Jonge (KU), version of 3 January 2024.
