Monday, February 08, 2010

Museum-ification

There is a long history to humans creating shrines and displays - special ways to store, protect, fetisize, contextualize (or re-contextualize) objects. From the paintings at Lascaux to African reliquaries to European wunderkammer to Native American burial mounds to Egyptian mummies and pyramids... perhaps this is painting with too broad of a stroke... (more here)
Today, however, there are countless museums dedicated to all sorts of research, narratives, and types of objects. These "institutions" celebrate art and ideas as much as they write and re-write our history, knowledge, and perception. Here is one example: The Museum of Phallology in Iceland
More to come as the research continues...

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