“he felt that the museum was presenting itself as a bulwark of professional expertise and hence as an untouchable authority that was not essentially interested in a dialogue with visitors. There was, it felt, ‘a one-way traffic in communication’ that hindered ‘the formation of independent opinions on the part of the public’… As opposed to the ‘canonisation of a final situation’…he advocated a presentation of the material that would stimulate visitors to take on the role of researcher themselves.”
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