Elizabeth Hanson wrote:
>
> Since I am trained as a material culture historian I too am dismayed with
> the increased number of collectionless exhibits/museums.
Could some tiny part of the reason be that the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries produced so much STUFF, that objects have lost their
preciousness in our minds?
Cynthia Ogorek
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