Aina Ferrero Horrach's '12+1 Herejías museológicas' Challenges Museum Dogmas

Aina Ferrero Horrach, a museologist and director of the Museo del Calzado y de la Industria de Inca, has published '12+1 herejías museológicas' with Ediciones asimétricas. The book, illustrated by Helena Bosco, presents a manual of 'anti-commandments' aimed at transforming traditional museums into more open, social, participatory, and accessible institutions. Horrach argues that museums must evolve from being 'secular cathedrals' where visitors passively observe relics, to becoming active cultural allies that confront contemporary issues like noise, banality, and prefabricated thought. The publication advocates for museums that conserve without mummifying, research without dogma, communicate without preaching, and listen without paternalism. Horrach, who holds a doctorate in Art History from the Universitat de les Illes Balears, has led the Inca museum since 2017, which has gained international recognition for its social and community transformation. Her work intersects sociomuseology, audience studies, participatory cultural management, citizen science, and heritage education. Bosco, a visual artist, supports the democratization of access to art through multiples and believes in the desacralization of cultural spaces. The book targets those who wish to 'conspire from within or from the margins' to imagine more vibrant, critical, and necessary museums. The publication is available via Amazon.