Making Exhibitions of Ourselves
Museums are time machines that bring objects of different periods together then freeze them in a perpetual present so that all the resources of a museum are bent towards preventing change. However, these objects resist the initial destiny and they end up creating their own lives. It is a commonplace...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red
2020-05-01
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| Series: | Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red |
| Online Access: | https://www.aibr.org/antropologia/netesp/numeros/1502/150202e.pdf |
| Summary: | Museums are time machines that bring objects of different periods together then freeze them in a perpetual present so that all the resources of a museum are bent towards preventing change. However, these objects resist the initial destiny and they end up creating their own lives. It is a commonplace of museums, that objects should be allowed to speak for them-selves but, of course, the sorts of stories they are allowed to tell are tightly controlled. In this article, by the use of irony and critique, Nigel Barley narrates a multitude of stories collect-ed during his experience as curator of the British Museum. |
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| ISSN: | 1695-9752 1578-9705 |