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The Museum As Object Of Display: Experiencing The Ashmolean, Jack Z. Chen
The Museum As Object Of Display: Experiencing The Ashmolean, Jack Z. Chen
Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History
Conventionally, museums are most often considered as a series of objects displayed, but I argue that the museum itself should be seen, first and foremost, as the object on display. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, built at the high tide of British Imperialism, is a very interesting case study. Interested in its engagement with its own past, I do not seek to investigate the actions it takes as an institution, for instance, as regards to the politics of repatriation. Instead, I want to explore the whole experience it facilitates as an object in its own right.
This experience begins with …