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Defending our true selves: being museumsMaria Vlachou
IATM Conference, Porto, 30 June 2015
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Daesung Lee, Futuristic Archeaology series
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French President François Hollande
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dead
untouchable
unattainable
locked up
frozen
centralised
controlled
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Holocaust Museum, Buenos Aires
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Holocaust Museum, Buenos Aires
“A museum, no art”
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Holocaust Museum, Buenos Aires
“She and millions of other people did nothing to be in a museum.”
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much more than a museum
grouphack_Met.jpg“A good museum attracts, entertains, arouses curiosity, leads to questioning and thus, promotes learning. (...) The Museum can help people only if they use it; they will use it only if they know about it and only if attention is given to the interpretation of its possessions in terms they, the people, will understand.” (John Cotton Dana, 1909)
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“Curators may be prodigies of learning and yet unfit for their posts if they don´t know anything about pedagogy, if they are not equipped to teach people who know nothing.”
Edward Forbes, 1854
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Museum Hack is a highly interactive, subversive, fun, non-traditional museum tour.
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Michelle Obama, Whitney Museum inauguration, New York
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“The good thing about museums is that you don’t have to sit an exam to get in or to come out.”
Gail Dexter Lord
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KUMU, Tallinn
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Convent of Christ, Tomar
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Municipal Museum of Aljustrel
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Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon
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Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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Posters by artist Peter Drew in the
streets of Adelaide
Shared on Facebook by Migration Mueum, Adelaide
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Thelma Golden Harlem Studio Museum
New York
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Left: Museum in the NetherlandsRight: Fine Arts Museum, Budapest
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Maritime Museum, Barcelona
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Ethnography MuseumBudapest
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Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon
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Exhibition postcardMunicipality of Lisbon
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The British Museum, London
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Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York
