Technologies of interpretation: design and redesign of the Tahitian marketplace at the Field Museum of Natural History

From: Anthropologica | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Abstract: Museum exhibitions are a special genre of anthropological communication: one that offers unique creative opportunities for the practice of applied anthropology. This paper tells the story of one controversial exhibition and offers some lessons learned from the experience. Museums stand at a critical crossroads where innovation and risk taking can lead to a new age of museum participation in popular education and cultural enrichment. The author encourages museums to abandon the trend towards expensive and time-consuming renovations of outdated permanent exhibitions (they will always ...

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