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| Authors: | Saphinaz-Amal Naguib: Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, Norway |
| Publication title: | The One, the Many and the Other: Revisiting Cultural Diversity in Museums of Cultural History |
| Conference: | National museums in a global world. NaMu III, Department of culture studies and oriental languages, University of Oslo, Norway, 19–21 November 2007 |
| Publication type: | Abstract and Fulltext |
| Issue: | 031 |
| Article No.: | 001 |
| Abstract: | This article is about modes of exhibition in museums of cultural history in western Europe from the second half of the 20th century to today. I begin by considering some of the challenges national museums are facing today and then go briefly back in time to the evolutionary mode and what I call the didactic descriptive museology with its galleries of objects-witnesses and trophies that was prevalent until the end of the 1970s. Next, I discuss the polyphonic narrative turn and the museology of intersecting gazes that developed during the 1980s and which is still applied in European museums today. Thereafter, I probe the aesthetic mode which is a favourite strategy of display when treating themes pertaining to cultural diversity and otherness since the 1990s. To conclude, I present some thoughts about what I describe as the nomadic turn and the aesthetics of transience that have become the trend since the turn of our millennium. Before going on I want to emphasize that these different museological approaches do not follow a strict chronology. Their paths are often juxtaposed and overlapping. |
| Language: | English |
| Year: | 2007 |
| No. of pages: | 15 |
| Pages: | 5-19 |
| Series: | Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings |
| ISSN (print): | 1650-3686 |
| ISSN (online): | 1650-3740 |
| File: | http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/031/001/ecp0703101.pdf |
| Available: | 2008-07-16 |
| Publisher: | Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköpings universitet |
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REFERENCE TO THIS PAGE | Saphinaz-Amal Naguib (2007). The One, the Many and the Other: Revisiting Cultural Diversity in Museums of Cultural History, National museums in a global world. NaMu III, Department of culture studies and oriental languages, University of Oslo, Norway, 19–21 November 2007 http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp_article/index.en.aspx?issue=031;article=001 (accessed 6/18/2013) |
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