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A new semester began today, and in class we were talking about "Mining the Museum," Fred Wilson's exhibit at the Maryland Historical Society in 1992. The students came up with a couple good questions that I couldn't fully answer, so I thought I'd pose them here.
1) The exhibit was certainly a critical success, and is still talked about in museum circles. But was it a popular success? Did it draw crowds?
2) What, if anything, has been the legacy of this exhibit? I don't recall seeing or hearing about anything this subversive or this personal, certainly not to the extent that you would call a "trend." I suppose the greater willingness to include "outsider," non-museum voices in exhibits might be traced at least in part to this show, but I couldn't say for sure.
Any thoughts?
Eugene Dillenburg
Exhibit Developer
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