We inhabit a culture in the sense that we share a certain amount of knowledge and understanding about our environment with others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
We have evolved into a society that shares what Stuart Hall (1997: 18) in Macdonald (2011:18) defines “cultural maps” which makes us question or make judgements the value, status and legitimacy of products or cultural practices.<\/p>\n
Within museums we are trying to materialize values and trying to give meaning to objects. For this reason museums within cultural theory are public spaces in which their values and the culture creation is always under debate.<\/p>\n
Main theoretical apporach<\/h2>\n
In order to give meaning to something, we depend on a social construction of a signifying system that creates a shared understanding. The semiotic research of Ferdinand de Saussure, indicates that signifiers and signifieds relate arbitrarily. This means that perhaps the meaning or classification (curation) system to an object could be completely different \u00a0from the perspective of a different culture.<\/p>\n
When an artifact is being curated, this is attached or linked to an interpretation system that could be attached to a single cultural ‘string’. \u00a0Taking the post-structuralist approach, we can provide a structure of interpretation that adapts to the cultural needs of the artifact or the audience. The attempt to materialize culture and present how an object can change through time, \u00a0tends to fit to the vision of the post-structuralist thinking.<\/p>\n
For this project this could be the way in which post-structuralism becomes the main way of presenting an object of study. \u00a0A multi curated object presented from\u00a0different\u00a0cultural backgrounds and within different cultural audiences. Although the object can be presented with several meanings, “poststructuralist theory does not automatically imply that the material world ceases to exist” (Macdonald, 2011:21), but it will be understood from different perspectives or meanings.<\/p>\n
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V&A Mark Lane Archway (Gallery 49)<\/p><\/div>\n
The Object<\/h3>\n
Before photography, multimedia and all the new\u00a0technologies, the object by itself was the way to present the culture or places which it came from. For this reason I think that the object presented should contain enough information to communicate or represent the specific qualities of a culture. When the object is unique it will be a challenge to transmit the embedded information to a replica that could be presented somewhere else. \u00a0The use of modern manufacture technology and prototype making can assist with this process. \u00a0But it will be the correct adaptation of the object and its environment what will be able to make the correct communication to the audience possible.<\/p>\n
Bibliography<\/h2>\n
MACDONALD, S. 2011. A companion to museum studies, <\/em>Malden, MA ;\u00a0Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell.<\/p>\n PEARCE, S. 2001. Interpreting Objects and Collections, <\/em>Andover, Routledge, 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Museum Studies The museums by themselves have different processes and meanings for the population and institutions. \u00a0Through these classifications of museums, we can provide a more accurate linkage in between the object of study (or exhibited) and the audience. Cultural Theory Through contemporary cultural theory we can incorporate all sort of art practices into the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16088,4384,7179,8896,7178,7176,7181,7175,7180,16085,16136,16091,16092,323,16086,16087,16089,228,3],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-artifacts","tag-collaboration","tag-it","tag-javier","tag-javier-pereda","tag-museology","tag-museum","tag-museum-studies","tag-organization","tag-pereda","tag-reports","tag-science","tag-small-museum","tag-statistics","tag-trinker","tag-trinkermedia","tag-virtual-reality","tag-web","tag-web-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}