Human Rights and the Individual Museum Visitor

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Human Rights and the Individual Museum Visitor

This paper argues for a new museum ethics, one that foregrounds the human rights and narrative power of the individual visitor. Museums neglect the voices of individual visitors. Although in recent years attention has been paid to the role of the visitor in museums, it has been in terms of a limited...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Harris, Jennifer
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	International Committee for Museology of the International Council of Museums,UNESCO 2013
Subjects:	Human rights museums
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37323

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