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January 24, 2012 by tyler

The Difficulties of Hybridity

James Clifford’s “Museums as Contact Zones” provides fantastic contextualization of the museum:  caught up in ongoing and active process of “imagining” culture (to borrow from Benedict Anderson) and all the messy issues that go along with such a process.  Two of the most salient points from this reading for me are the ways in which […]

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January 18, 2012 by kristin

BBC Article Regarding Findings in Museum Storage

After our visit to the Museum of Vancouver’s Neon Vancouver | Ugly Vancouver exhibit and walk through of the museum’s storage, I ran across this article on my commute home: “Fossils Discovered in Museum Storage including Some of Charles Darwin’s Plant Specimens” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16578330 I can now understand why so many resources are needed to manage […]