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Tangible Things : Harvard Collections in World History
Author(s) -
Carrier David
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
curator: the museum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2151-6952
pISSN - 0011-3069
DOI - 10.1111/j.2151-6952.2011.00084.x
Subject(s) - treasure , exhibition , reflection (computer programming) , visual arts , art history , history , sociology , art , computer science , archaeology , programming language
A multivenue exhibition, Tangible Things: Harvard Collections in World History , which involved a treasure hunt through six museums on the Harvard University campus, posed provocative questions about the apparently arbitrary classification systems in which artifacts find final resting places. Tangible Things is certain to inspire a great deal of productive reflection and controversy among museum scholars.