Museums and colonialism
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🗓️ 10 July 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:50.5 | I'm Ellie Cawthorne. |
| 0:56.3 | In today's episode, you'll hear from the historian and author Alice Proctor, who runs the uncomfortable art tours. |
| 1:04.5 | Alice is the author of the recent book, The Whole Picture, which explores how colonialism has shaped museums and galleries up to the present day. |
| 1:13.9 | She caught up with our editor, Rob Atar, a little while back to discuss some of the themes that |
| 1:19.1 | emerge from her work. |
| 1:20.6 | Your book is called The Whole Picture. |
| 1:22.6 | So what parts of the picture do you think are currently missing from museums and galleries? |
| 1:27.1 | So the titles are reference to the fact that when we talk about objects in museum spaces, |
| 1:33.4 | we're often doing it in a very superficial way. There's a lot of emphasis on how these objects |
| 1:38.3 | are made and how they sort of stylistically work and the beauty of the object is sort of first and foremost. |
| 1:46.3 | The thing that I really wanted to focus on was a sort of deeper history about where these |
| 1:51.0 | objects are coming from and how they come to be in museums as part of that. So the parts that |
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