The Museum is not transparent: Engaging the museum in examination of its own role in the production of history

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Harris, Jennifer
Other Authors:	Vieregg, Hildegard K.
Format:	Conference Paper
Published:	Museo Nacional Estancia Jesuitica de Alta Gracia y Casa del Virrey Liniers on behalf of ICOFOM 2006
Subjects:	history museum museology
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13842

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