The small Museum of Migrations in Lampedusa

If we consider the museum as an institution, we spontaneously relate it to concepts such as tradition, collection, scientific committee, administration, more or less codified cultural representations, more or less marked cultural policies, dialogue with its context and search for a public. If we refer to the internal debate within contemporary museums, we immediately think of integration and cultural mediation, alongside the debate concerning their public and social function and the educational departments's research. All this plays a big role in the mental image shared by art historians, anthropologists and curators researching hybridization and crossbreeding, and what these notions could mean within the various discourses on identity, on the one end, and self-representation on the other hand. But what is happening in Lampedusa? What have this island and its population to do with cultural and scientific museological debate?