06-29-2009, 09:10 AM
Quote:The Economist weighs in:Thanks. This was exactly what I was looking for. I had an opportunity to recently visit two museums (Tongeren and Xanten) that were in the position to rebuild everything - new building, new insights, new concept, new models, new displays, new everything. What impressed me was that both museums were light (no half-illuminated rooms here where the objects are shown as mysterious artifacts from a dark, distant past), and -especially in Xanten- that many objects were shown from other collections. Yes, museums should collaborate.
Quote:The Munich declaration, as it is called, asserts that today’s ethical standards cannot be applied to yesterday’s acquisitions; but in return it acknowledges that encyclopedic museums have a special duty to put world culture on display…
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