Dear David Harvey,

The problem of most museums is that they don't have enough or the
appropriate objects to display completely a certain theme, a certain field
of science. If museums only dedicate themselves to preserving objects, they
will never be able to explain to the public a certain theme, a field of
scientific research, a field of art etc. because they never have all the
necessary original objects to display it.
Museums tend therefore to pretend in their exhibitions to the public that
the objects on display are the most important for the time, the culture etc.
mentioned in the commercial papers.
But, that is true very seldom. I suggest therefore, that museums should
expand - use their preserved and collected objects in first place, but add
replicas, artifacts, pictures etc. in the same exhibitions to show to the
public the wide range of the displayed area.

Thanks for listening,
Peter, the Rebernik
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