Museums are a feature of modern nation-states. On the surface, museums act as a display room for the country’s history. But the museum is more like an art gallery; designed as a carefully curated experience. It intends to tell a story of the nation through a calculated selection of its exhibits; how and where the artefacts are placed in relation to each other, and the experience of moving through the gallery spaces1.

This is true for all museums. Publicly or privately funded. Certainl...