The Antimuseum

The museum has a different way of presenting objects. Instead of being used to represent particular cultures, eras or events, the objects are shown in their own right, as art rather than anthropology or history. Throughout, the interpretation overtly recognizes the relativistic nature of any process of sorting or presenting: labels simply declare that the presentation offered is only one of the possible interpretations, which visitors are encouraged to mull over in order to produce their own understandings. History is not "a single definitive immutable work but . . . a collection of subjective tellings by different authors with different points of view." No account is authoritative.


The US government and the Native people of this continent may well want to avoid the genocidal theme for different reasons.

I've never been to the museum so I'm not defending the exhibitons or curitorial choices.


- steve 6-05-2007 7:37 pm





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