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Dear Tim,
What a great topic. I hope it's going to become a thesis we can all read.
Did you know the British Museum presented an exhibition entitled "Fake: the
art of deception"? I visited it during spring 1990 and I still have not seen
a more brilliant exhibition. I have the catalogue, if you would like the
complete bibliography.
Hervé Gagnon
Director-Curator
Colby-Curtis Museum
Stanstead (Québec)
Canada
Timothy K Winkle a écrit:
> I am a graduate student in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling
> Green State University. I am currently working on a project involving
> museum hoaxes (intentional or unrecognized) and the continued display of
> hoax objects in museums. I am interested in input from any and everyone
> on this topic, secifically:
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> 1. Historical or current hoaxes in which museums have played a significant
> tole in their perpetration or dissemination. For example, the Piltdown
> Man hoax (possibly) perpetrated by curators of the British Museum.
>
> 2. Hoax objects that are displayed today as museum pieces. For example,
> the Cardiff Giant at the Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown.
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> Particularly welcome would be any comments or information from museum
> workers at such sites. I would very much like to know how such objects
> are labeled and interpretted, and how their status as frauds are
> incorporated into the museum's overall purpose.
>
> I thank you in advance, TIM
>
> TImothy K. Winkle
> Department of Popular Culture
> Bowling Green State University
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