The Museum is not transparent: Engaging the museum in examination of its own role in the production of history
Contemporary museology is attempting to wrest the museum from its role of transparent presenter of history. In this role the museum has assumed itself to have an apolitical position as it has displayed, exhibited and explained objects from the past without taking into account its own complicity in h...
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Museo Nacional Estancia Jesuitica de Alta Gracia y Casa del Virrey Liniers on behalf of ICOFOM
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| author | Harris, Jennifer |
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| description | Contemporary museology is attempting to wrest the museum from its role of transparent presenter of history. In this role the museum has assumed itself to have an apolitical position as it has displayed, exhibited and explained objects from the past without taking into account its own complicity in history. The acts of collecting, choosing and displaying artefacts have not been regarded as historic, moral and political. The institution of the museum has regarded itself as transparent, simply a window onto history. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-138422017-08-23T07:29:31Z The Museum is not transparent: Engaging the museum in examination of its own role in the production of history Harris, Jennifer Vieregg, Hildegard K. Risnicoff de Gorgas, Monica Schiller, Regina Troncoso, Martha history museum museology Contemporary museology is attempting to wrest the museum from its role of transparent presenter of history. In this role the museum has assumed itself to have an apolitical position as it has displayed, exhibited and explained objects from the past without taking into account its own complicity in history. The acts of collecting, choosing and displaying artefacts have not been regarded as historic, moral and political. The institution of the museum has regarded itself as transparent, simply a window onto history. 2006 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13842 Museo Nacional Estancia Jesuitica de Alta Gracia y Casa del Virrey Liniers on behalf of ICOFOM restricted |
| spellingShingle | history museum museology Harris, Jennifer The Museum is not transparent: Engaging the museum in examination of its own role in the production of history |
| title | The Museum is not transparent: Engaging the museum in examination of its own role in the production of history |
| title_full | The Museum is not transparent: Engaging the museum in examination of its own role in the production of history |
| title_fullStr | The Museum is not transparent: Engaging the museum in examination of its own role in the production of history |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Museum is not transparent: Engaging the museum in examination of its own role in the production of history |
| title_short | The Museum is not transparent: Engaging the museum in examination of its own role in the production of history |
| title_sort | museum is not transparent: engaging the museum in examination of its own role in the production of history |
| topic | history museum museology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13842 |