An encounter in a museum—viewing objects in a display case or a wall filled with art—is always an encounter with curation. Science fiction gives insights into the power inherent in the curator’s role. Although curators are scarce in science fiction, one major science fiction character who is deliberately positioned by writers as a curator stands out: the Doctor of the popular British television series Doctor Who. As a way of wrapping up this collection of essays on science fiction and museums, I draw on the Doctor’s role as curator to position the collection’s essays as contributions to our understanding of the power of museum curation and where it might go astray. I discuss three themes appearing across the issue: knowledge curation, resisting curation, and dangerous curation. All narratives in the museum are curated to create worlds, and those worlds deserve to be scrutinized and contemplated rather than simply accepted as true. Science fiction narratives tell us that curated worlds can be otherwise.

在博物馆中的相遇——在展示柜或充满艺术的墙上观看物品——总是与策展的相遇。科幻小说揭示了策展人角色所固有的力量。尽管科幻小说中的策展人稀缺，但一位被作家刻意定位为策展人的主要科幻人物却脱颖而出：英国热门电视剧《神秘博士》中的博士. 作为总结这本关于科幻小说和博物馆的论文集的一种方式，我利用博士作为策展人的角色将收藏的论文定位为有助于我们理解博物馆策展的力量以及它可能误入歧途的地方。我讨论了这个问题中出现的三个主题：知识管理、抵制管理和危险管理。博物馆中的所有叙述都是为了创造世界而策划的，这些世界值得仔细审视和思考，而不是简单地接受为真实的。科幻小说告诉我们，策划的世界可以是其他的。