Creating Voices: Ancient to Modern at the Petrie Museum

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  • Debbie Challis Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL

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https://doi.org/10.5334/jcms.1011205

Abstract

How do you voice the ancient past? How do you speak a language, the pronunciation of which is contested? Can animate objects speak and if they could, what stories would they tell? Who has the right to make those decisions?  Here I argue that understanding more about ‘voices’ in the museum can assist us with exploring that nebulous ‘in-between’ space, the space between the story of the object as presented by the museum and the object as perceived by the visitor, rather than simply directing an interpretation narrative.

Author Biography

  • Debbie Challis, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL

    Audience Development Officer

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2012-08-19

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