The exhibition Return to the Moon: A Short History of the Future is, at its heart, an attempt to show the connection between history, art, science and technology in an appealing and engaging way, and is also a new way of seeing the complex relations between the past and the future.

It corresponds to this year’s theme of the International Museum Day and the European Night of Museums, Museums and Cultural Landscapes, and it will allow the viewers to pore over the surface of the Moon and see what contemporary art has to say on this topic. The exhibition centres on a sample of lunar soil, which was presented as a gift to the people of Yugoslavia by the U.S. Apollo 17 mission crew on behalf of the U.S. President Richard M. Nixon. The exhibition is the result of cooperation between the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska and the Museum of Yugoslav History in Belgrade and brings outer space closer to the Banja Luka museum audience.

Return to the Moon: A Short History of the Future urges reflection about a lost future by linking space exploration memorabilia and the photographs and footage documenting the visit of U.S. astronauts to Yugoslavia and Tito’s tour of the NASA Space Center Houston with extracts from popular technology magazines from the 1960’s.

This exhibition draws into a unique discussion museum exhibits and Radoš Antonijević’s sculptures, individual and shared memories, intepretations of the inherited and social activism. It brings up a question, T, with the aim of provoking reaction, which it does by confronting a previous vision of the future with a contemporary one.

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