Globalization and the Great Exhibition

Young, Paul

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“…Historian of science William Whewell wrote in 1852 that the Crystal Palace Exposition was built on the assumption that “In the useful and ornamental arts[,] nations are always going forwards, from stage to stage. Different nations have reached different stages of this progress, and all their different stages are seen at once” at the fair (quoted in Young , 11–14). Historian of anthropology Julian Fabian describes the rationale for this style: “Not only past cultures but all living societies were irrevocably placed on a temporal slope, a stream of Time—some upstream, others downstream” (, 17) The Pitt Rivers Museum borrowed a similar rationale for its exhibition of ethnographic objects, arranging them by use and showing evolution from simple to complex forms.…”

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Timelines in Exhibitions

Lubar¹

2013

Curator The Museum Journal

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Timelines serve as the organizing structure for many exhibitions. This essay explores the use of the timeline in museums in an attempt to understand its appeal and its meaning. The article considers the nature of narrative, and of chronology specifically, as well as the history of the timeline and of its use in museum exhibitions. Raising questions about the message sent by chronological ordering, the essay encourages exhibition developers to consider how exhibits might move beyond the timeline to provide visitors with a more nuanced historical understanding and a more active relationship to the past. If we stop taking the timeline for granted, we might find ways to complicate chronology while still taking advantage of its power.

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Section: The History Of Timelines In Print and In Exhibitsmentioning

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Timelines in Exhibitions

Lubar¹

2013

Curator The Museum Journal

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Mobile Materiality: The Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Mobile-Material Relations of Henry Mayhew’s 1851: or, the Adventures of Mr and Mrs Sandboys

Mathieson

2019

Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790–1930

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Impact and the Humanities: The Rise of Accountability in Public Cultural Life

Bulaitis

2020

Value and the Humanities

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This chapter scrutinises the rise of the impact criterion within research assessment and places it within a wider context of market-led cultural policy (1980–90s). Specifically, the chapter addresses the impact agenda of the 2014 REF by drawing upon a wider context of accountability in public museums. The discussion of the public museum demonstrates how, since the nineteenth century, cultural values are configured within a framework of national interests and regulated through mechanisms of accountability and assessment of public impact. The chapter draws from critical scholarship in the field of museology in order to provide a language with which humanities scholars can address the contemporary changes facing research assessment culture in higher education.

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Globalization and the Great Exhibition

Cited by 39 publications

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Timelines in Exhibitions

Timelines in Exhibitions

Mobile Materiality: The Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Mobile-Material Relations of Henry Mayhew’s 1851: or, the Adventures of Mr and Mrs Sandboys

Impact and the Humanities: The Rise of Accountability in Public Cultural Life

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