Antipodean aesthetics, public policy and the museum : Te Papa, for example

Ben Dibley

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    Abstract

    The Museum of New Zealand–Te Papa Tongarewa has proved a complex cultural site that has generated much public debate and a growing academic literature. This article departs from critical approaches that resolve the analysis of this museum by pointing up its programmatic inconsistencies, internal contradictions, representational inadequacies or its institutional paradoxes. Rather than establishing Te Papa as an object for reform the author reads it as an archive for reflection on the cultural predicament of an antipodean modernity.
    Original languageEnglish
    Number of pages21
    JournalCultural Studies Review
    Publication statusPublished - 2007

    Keywords

    • New Zealand
    • archive
    • modernity
    • museums
    • restructure

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