Museum Temporalities
Time, History and the Future of the (Ethnographic) Museum

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Museum Temporalities analyzes how museums relate to time. It explores the hidden temporal assumptions and practices that define museums. How might these assumptions help us to better understand and address museums' often problematic and painful relationship to a colonial past?

Info autore

Wayne Modest is Director of Content of the Wereldmuseum in the Netherlands and Head of its Research Center for Material Culture. He is also a Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Peter Pels is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology of Africa at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

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Museum Temporalities analyzes how museums relate to time. It explores the hidden temporal assumptions and practices that define museums. How might these assumptions help us to better understand and address museums’ often problematic and painful relationship to a colonial past?