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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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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