What stories are written in museums?
What stories are written in museums?
Preserving objects certainly remains one of the primary missions of the museum, but it
Today, it is no longer so much a question of transmitting a material heritage as a
set of stories that make up society. Specific to European culture, the
museum crystallizes contemporary issues. It is entrusted with the heavy burden
to write a collective history, often in the service of a national culture —
as if outside of time and the turmoil of current events - while collecting
singular words. But this cultural narrative is contested, in its contents and
its very form.
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