Institutionalizing contemporary art, one regards her within a global framework, straight only began. Despite a world-wide art production and a wave of Biennalen the contemporary art gained a foothold particularly in museums outside of the west still hardly - a phenomenon, which concerns the future of art museums in various way. While with artists above all the migration question is the center of attention, public museums are confronted as local mechanisms with the location problem. The topical reader meets essays of art critics, Anthropologen and curators, who and perspectives of non-western art and local institutions for art in the age of the globalization discuss present in detail. The texts developed on the occasion of two international conferences to the topic and were supplemented for the publication around further significant expert contributions.