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Museology, or museum studies (also known in older sources as museography), is the study of museums, museum curation, and how museums developed into their institutional role in education through social and political forces.
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Professionalism is like love: it is made up of the constant flow of little bits of proof that testify to devotion and care. Everything else is pretension or incompetence.
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― Eternity Does Not Live Here Any More - A Glossary of Museum Sins
― Eternity Does Not Live Here Any More - A Glossary of Museum Sins
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Visitors say, 'Real shrunken heads! Wow! How were they made? By slitting the skin, taking out the skull and brains and steaming them with hot sand? Gross!' But what no one asks is: how did they get here? What are they doing hanging up in a university museum in the south of England? Once you start to answer that question, you realize that shrunken heads like these are a product as much of European curiosity, European taste and European purchasing power as they are of an archaic tribal custom. It
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― Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
― Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
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