Duncan F. Cameron - It is insufficiently understood that a museum's power lies not...

It is insufficiently understood that a museum's power lies not in the possession of objects and collections, but in the acceptance of its authority to name them by both label and context. This is the most jealously guarded divine right of the museum as the curator of soi-disant public collections.

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It is insufficiently understood that a museum's power lies not in the possession of objects and collections, but in the acceptance of its authority to name them by both label and context. This is the most jealously guarded divine right of the museum as the curator of soi-disant public collections. Duncan F. Cameron

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