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We are excited to announce the release of The Critical Visitor: Heritage Practices in Transition, available in both Dutch and English. This publication is the third installment in the Work in Progress series (Wereldmuseum, 2018-). It functions as an "incomplete guide" for those involved in the heritage sector, offering a starting point for critical analysis and reflection.

How are you guided in your museological, curatorial, or archival practice? Explain the concept guiding you, the principles, the thinking, frameworks. Likely you can’t, or feel you shouldn’t. This is tacit knowledge. Knowledge of the gut, of the fingers, muscles, sinew and bone. Still, you are committed to your work, dedicated even. This edited volume is an opening to theoretical reflections on practices that are aimed towards inclusivity, so that these practices ‘in the field’ – so often not discussed, shared or dissected – beco