I'm not biting the pc bullet - being English it all looks different over
here anyway - but I though i'dsay that I wrote my dissertation on the
political and social implications of traditional and contemporary museum
practice, i'm not sure i came out favouring 'straight accurate facts'
entirely, but if anyone's interested i can send them more off-list.

:-)
Jane


>re:  Indigo Nights' note:
>Oh, super, now we've gotten onto PC.  Well then, in a museum context, I
>think an important element of museum interpretation is the presentation of
>straight, accurate facts.  I think that museums that only present
>information favorable to one philosophy, so as to not offend anyone,
>stink.  I know that, while I think that museums should educate, plenty of
>other people believe they should re-educate.  I think all of those people
>are dopes--oops, sorry, those people are misled.
>