Summary
Museums - Laurie Taylor talks to Adam Kuper, most recently Centennial Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economic, about their history and future. Originally created as colonial enterprises, what is the purpose of these places now? How do we regard the ways in which foreign and prehistoric peoples were represented in museums of anthropology? What should be done with the artefacts and human remains in their custodianship and how can they help us to understand and appreciate other cultures?
Kerry Wilson, Reader in Cultural Policy at Liverpool John Moores University, discusses House of Memories, a multiple award-winning dementia awareness programme, led by National Museums Liverpool. The programme promotes the use of social history collections and museum objects to inspire communication and connection between carers and people with dementia, via dedicated museum-based events. Is this an example of how museums can offer social value to local communities today?
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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| 0:47.0 | The foggy day |
| 0:52.0 | in London town |
| 0:58.0 | had me low |
| 1:02.0 | had me down had me down. |
| 1:06.4 | Yes, a foggy day in London town, |
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| 1:22.4 | I viewed the morning with alarm the British |
| 1:25.1 | Museum had lost its charm. Now although I can't remember being particularly |
| 1:29.5 | loved lawn when I last visited the British Museum. That couple came back to me as I |
| 1:34.8 | trudged around the familiar exhibits, the Rosetta stone, the Parthen on |
| 1:39.6 | sculptures, the Roman crouching Venus and the Aztec Serpent. The charm, yet the charm that I'd once found in museums |
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