A universal display? Investigating the role of Panathenaic amphorae in the British Museum
Journal: D-Scholarship@Pitt (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2017

Museum displays can serve to educate and inform the public about various concepts and classes of objects. However, the ways in which these displays present information is typically filtered through selective interpretive lenses that reflect a variety of biases, including theoretical and institutional ones. As a result, the museum’s mission and goals directly affect gallery displays by orienting information so that it is in alignment with the museum’s aims. For example, the British Museum of Lond