http://www.marissaneave.com/2008/04/museum-as-collective-memory-how-redefining-the-museum-changes-its-cultural-authority/ art + space + audience Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:46:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.marissaneave.com/2008/04/museum-as-collective-memory-how-redefining-the-museum-changes-its-cultural-authority/#comment-262 the last place on earth you probably want to be » Blog Archive » The Novice Voice Sat, 17 May 2008 06:43:51 +0000 http://www.marissaneave.com/?p=30#comment-262 [...] Museums have a terribly imposing and overwhelming responsibility to not only display histories, but also to impart on its visitors some sort of educational value. Within the industry, it’s well-known that museums have an authoritative voice that visitors interpret as an objective and truthful one. The only reason this is still a problem is that museums haven’t done anything to change this. I’ve considered this theoretically in more depth in my article about redefining the museum as a site of collective memory, which you can read here. [...] [...] Museums have a terribly imposing and overwhelming responsibility to not only display histories, but also to impart on its visitors some sort of educational value. Within the industry, it’s well-known that museums have an authoritative voice that visitors interpret as an objective and truthful one. The only reason this is still a problem is that museums haven’t done anything to change this. I’ve considered this theoretically in more depth in my article about redefining the museum as a site of collective memory, which you can read here. [...]

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