The collection is dedicated to the museum as a space for interaction with the past. Modern museums perform the educational function traditional for the Enlightenment project, providing opportunities for learning about one or another fragment of the past. At the same time, museums are increasingly concerned with the participation of spectators, activating various aspects of their experience. Museums work with materiality, physicality, images, sounds and smells, become a place for theatrical productions and performances, and go beyond the museum walls into urban and digital spaces. This book explores how museums' awareness of the emotional potential of the past affects its representation. Using various methodological approaches, the collection's authors—museumologists, historians, sociologists, cultural scientists, curators, and playwrights—explore techniques for managing affect and emotions in contemporary and historical contexts. Museum technologies are considered in the context of problems of public history, memory policy, cultural policy, museum theory and practice.