Introducing the Board of Trustees

The world has changed a lot since the Chapter Museum was founded 40 years ago. The analogue world is increasingly becoming digital. Museums are not exempt from this; they are becoming "phygital", i.e. the physical and the digital are becoming intertwined.

With the help of technical tools such as 3D glasses and augmented reality, visitors to the Chapter Museum can look over Duke Tassilo's shoulder as he signs the deed of donation or talk to the giant Baranci about the construction of the collegiate church.

But such museum-like videogaming is not our goal. The old should not become a quickly consumed world of experience. Rather, we want to take something from the old world into our today, for the tomorrow. We want to cross-reference and connect. Last year, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) added the following aspect to the objectives of museum activities: Museums enable reflection, knowledge exchange and participation.

The Chapter Museum will therefore change, and change constantly. Not a rigid, but a flexible permanent exhibition and a special exhibition that addresses a wide variety of topics: The archives of the chapter and the cathedral treasury are an inexhaustible source of the most diverse topics that affect us all, then, now and in the future.

What once was the Abbey Museum now becomes the MIK - the CHAPTER MUSEUM. The chapter is the community of canons; the chapter is a piece of San Candido's history. The museum is right in the centre.