Museum
Museums cannot display everything. They take on sides or issues and will end up in the end still offending somebody. It is in human nature not to like everything. People just need to learn to deal and continue to better develop themselves. People just have to take the bad with the good. There is beauty in everything if you look deep enough or from a different perspective. Look outside that box. (Linenthal, Edward, “Anatomy of a Controversy,” History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past, edited by Edward Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt, pp.9-62. {New York: Metropolitan Books, 1996})
posted by Alena | 6:26 PM
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The problem with displaying archaeology objects in museums it that the labels never tell where the objects were uncovered. I first noticed at Indiana University’s art Museum and then at Indianapolis Museum of Art. So I poise the question were they obtained legally? They could even put some kind of map displaying the areas discovered in. So what if it is an art museum and not a history museum. Where are the guidelines for such rules?
I don't understand why they don't use mirrors in museums, especially in art to portray an object properly. I read on the label about the back of a sculpture having a picture on the back but I couldn't see the picture because it was blocked behind plexiglass and an Egyptian tomb.
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