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“Perhaps you feel you already spend enough time thinking critically about every other thing in the world, and for you a museum should be a place you can go to just wander around and look at beautiful things. But you still have to remember that, however invisible they may be, there is someone directing you around that space, shaping your interpretation, and choosing what you may look at and how.”
— Jul 05, 2025 09:34AM
“Perhaps you feel you already spend enough time thinking critically about every other thing in the world, and for you a museum should be a place you can go to just wander around and look at beautiful things. But you still have to remember that, however invisible they may be, there is someone directing you around that space, shaping your interpretation, and choosing what you may look at and how.”
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“Museums have gift shops - that’s how they make money - but there are choices to be made in what they reproduce and how.
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Where it gets messy is the question of consent and power: who has the right to choose how an object is commercialised? “
— Dec 11, 2025 06:51AM
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Where it gets messy is the question of consent and power: who has the right to choose how an object is commercialised? “
