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Reviewing the museum or: The complexity of things

1970; University of Oslo Library; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5617/nm.3778

2002-0503

Walter Grasskamp,

Canadian Identity and History

The young historian, Anthony Maloney, Assistant Professor at the McGill University, Montreal is a specialist on the Victorian era. He spends a few days in California, where, in his motel room on the last weekend before his flight home, he has a dream. Outside his window, on a huge car-park, a complete exhibition on Victorian culture has appeared overnight. The exhibition is a hybrid of world exhibition, museum and annual fair, in which are combined every Victorian object Maloney has ever seen in a museum, with those he has only read about or seen illustrated. Others are virtually unknown to him, but their existence would indeed have been possible.