De Vertelling van Raaf
Michèle Jacobs

Communication is the sole aim of museums. We collect, preserve and exhibit things for
that purposes to communicate only - whether its to a scholar or to a member of the public. From its very beginning museums
have conserved objects which represent an individual or a collective past. It can, today, offer us a opportunity to
understand and experience the unknown world around us.
Indeed museums are shifting their role in society and can, therefore, no longer be hastily branded as temples of the elite,
or as Graham Swift once noted as "history's toy cupboard. A past of past times". Most exhibitions today - in the words of
Neil Postman do - in some way offer us an alternative view on history and a critical dialogue towards postmodern and tribal
societies.
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De Vertelling van Raaf - tekening: Fred Geven; Baribal, de indianenclub
In dit
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Het zomert lang door. El veranillo de San Miguel.
De eerstvolgende echte Museumkr@nt verschijnt op 1 oktober. Tot die tijd kunt u nog terecht in het Nieuw Land Poldermuseum -
volgens onze redacteur mag u zelfs twee keer.
Of u gaat nog even snel rondhangen in Keulen. Hanging around als opmaat voor een culturele herfst.
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