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Similar or Different? Configurations of Authenticity Across Museum Types

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Authenticity is traditionally regarded as playing a crucial role in museums, science centers, and memorials. However, despite this fact, authenticity has very different meanings in different (institutional) settings. This complicates shared communications across museum practices.
S. Schwan   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Museum for Me: Activities, Practices, and Products to Foment Engagement With Human Rights in Museum Spaces in Colombia

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents the findings of an international interdisciplinary research project that has collaborated with community groups and museums in Colombia. It proposes that there are potential benefits in rethinking the museum “from below”, using the concept of the museum as a memory prop to work with communities to document, create, curate,
Claire Taylor   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

There Is a Story Behind This Object: The University Museum as a Stage

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objects are a critical part of most museum exhibitions and their purpose within a university museum setting is linked to the stories they carry and how these are in turn communicated to museum visitors. This paper explores these stories through the practice of museum theater, which uses performance to bring historical stories within the museum
Stephanie Jenkins
wiley   +1 more source

The Politics of Pointing: Lessing's Fingerzeig and the Limits of Figural Reading

open access: yesThe German Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Lessing's Fingerzeig—a “pointer” that guides without determining judgment—has often been treated as a stylistic habit rather than a hermeneutic principle. This essay reconstructs it as an ethics of interpretation, a gesture that orients without completing and leaves judgment to whoever follows.
Matthew Thomas Stoltz
wiley   +1 more source

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