Saturday, April 4, 2015

Museums and Reality Checks

Just a quick note to point out a very good paper (actually a keynote address) given this past January by one of my former supervisors at the University of Edinburgh. "Reality Check: From Culture and Difference to Possession and Dispossession" by Angela Dimitrakaki should be a very good read for those who are more interested in the political and labour aspects of the contemporary museum, and also gives a few interesting pointers toward possible best practises in a global context. Highly reccomended.

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