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The Antiquary and the Antiquaries
The question of who has the right to tell the storys in the museum, and how you widen the authorship? Ts ron the opposit. In oxford, the ashmolian put on a small exhibition of objects given to it by gertrude bellandt lawrence er before the first world war. The project was to engage current refugees, current immigrants from that region,. with those objects and ask them how they responded to them. And the results were very extraordinary, because what emerged very quickly was that a lot of these objects had little historic significance. What it did mean was that the role of the object in the museum could affect an immigrant's part in the play