Mimi and Kim

We saw The Creation of Value: meditations on the logic of museums and other coercive institutions by Kim on Hamish Keith’s blog One City- Many Voices. Kim’s report describes museums as “reverse time machines” that treat each object in the collection “as though it is frozen in time … with nothing being allowed to get old or fall apart.” As the cat so sagely reflects, “…this is impossible… because no matter how much the museums try to copy reality, it never comes out right.” Essential viewing for museum staff everywhere, and a laugh for the rest of us.