Museum of Babel

The Museum of Babel: Meditations on the Metahistorical Turn in Museography is a thought provoking, transatlantic reading of contemporary exhibits of the museum's own past. Museums everywhere now exhibit 'evocations' of their own pasts, often in the form of refashioned, ancestral cabinets of curiosities. Moving beyond discussions of 'the return to curiosity,' Thurner calls this retrospective trend ...