What’s your dinosaur? Or, imaginative reconstruction and absolute truth in the museum space
For the first half of the nineteenth century, objects in the British Museum were largely unlabeled, uncatalogued, and unexplained. Nevertheless, the idea that the object could evoke a ‘larger world’ was current in discussions of the pedagogical use of the museum. The popular understanding of the mus...
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University of Leicester
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Museum & Society |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/3219 |