Who Owns The Past? Our Museums Seem To Be Confused

“The encroachment of liberal guilt into curatorial decisions is undermining the traditional purpose of the museum; a secular institution in the service of historical inquiry. It risks transforming our great institutions into places where understanding the past is conditioned by present-day political and therapeutic criteria. And yet it should be the role of a museum to open up the past to everyone.”

source ArtsJournal http://ift.tt/1TBKztS

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