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The Cultures Ep 276: Are Sports Sexist, V+A Dundee and Showcase Museums
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Listen to episode 276 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Are sports sexist? V&A Dundee and the problem of showcase museums (Pitt Rivers Museum, Sir John Soane’s Museum, Whose Culture Is It, Anyway? by Kwame Anthony Appiah)
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Enjoyed the Rodin exhibition at The British Museum, aka “why we should get to keep the Elgin Marbles”. The concept of the intentional fragment was fascinating.
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An original by any other name
The Chinese have two different concepts of a copy. Fangzhipin (仿製品) are imitations where the difference from the original is obvious. These are small models or copies that can be purchased in a museum shop, for example. The second concept for a copy is fuzhipin (複製品). They are exact reproductions of the original, which, for…
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Museums of Everywhere
Emmanuel Macron, President of France, recently announced he wants to return African cultural treasures to where they had been looted from, so they could be shown “in Dakar, Lagos and Cotonou,” not just Paris. The exact details of how this will come about – if at all – are still unclear. Perhaps France will make a…
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Nothing but respect for the best gallery in the Science Museum, The Secret Life of The Home. Hidden in the basement, it’s stood the test of time.
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Panels like this remind me why the Enlightenment Gallery is one of my favourite bits of the British Museum. Easily overlooked but an essential visit.
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Disneyworld Day 2: Blizzard Beach, Epcot, Boardwalk
The free intra-resort bus service has pretty good thus far. In some cases it’s been faster than an Uber, since the buses can usually get closer to the actual entrance of the park. But on average, I think the buses are about 10-15 min slower than Uber, which is not bad given the savings. My…
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VR Will Break Museums
The first sign came with the Oculus Rift DK2 last year, when I discovered that consumer virtual reality could finally replicate a sense of physical presence in a digital world. The second came last month, when I visited the British Museum’s Sicily exhibition. The exhibition was perfectly fine, a well-curated narrative of the Greek and…
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200 Years of Change
A game I like to play at history museums is imagining the present-day equivalents of past behaviour and objects. So at The Geffrye Museum of the Home in Hoxton, London, it’s fun to look at their Period Rooms and link up past and present behaviours. Take the 1935 Living Room; the armchairs are pointed at…
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