By Sandra Lynch
What is a Museum? "Museums are about cannibals and glass boxes," writes University of British Columbia Museum Director Michael Ames. For many, a place with "glass boxes" and "cannibal tours" might sound like an enticing place to go. Ames, however, was not writing a side-bar for British Columbia's Office of Tourism. "Museums," Ames claims, "are cannibalistic in appropriating other peoples' material for their own study and interpretation, and they confine their representations to glass box display cases." We expect there should be more to a museum, but when the institution first came into the world, glass boxes were the drawing cards.
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