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Synopsis
While it has become increasingly commonplace to speak of how history books omit the stories of people of color, rarely is the discussion broad enough to examine how these same omissions are replicated in institutions outside the academy. One such institution is the museum, particularly the history museum, which, much like a history book, is popularly perceived as a repository of truth. But as Mining the Museum, a book...
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To demonstrate how museums ignore or misrepresent the cultural contributions and history of blacks and Native Americans, New York installation artist Fred Wilson recently "mined" the Maryland Historical Society's collection (with that institute's cooperation) to create a powerful exhibit. His startling juxtapositions, recreated in this remarkable catalogue, include a Ku Klux Klan hood nestled in a turn-of-the-century baby carriage and iron slave shackles alongside a fine silver...
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Alternately jarring, saddening, and entertaining. -- Museum News
Anyone who sees Mining the Museum is unlikely to look at museum exhibits in quite the same way. -- Philadelphia Inquirer
One comes to consider everything else on view [in the museum] in an altered light. -- The New York Times
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- PublisherNew Pr
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 1565841085
- ISBN 13 9781565841086
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages148
- EditorCorrin Lisa Graziose
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