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MY ARGUMENT in Quadrant, September 2001, that the National Museum of Australia was a profound intellectual mistake, had a number of premises but the main one was a critique of the following proposition expressed at a 1999 conference to justify the approach its curators had taken:
Many museum practitio0ers now see their work as a critical practice, committed to drawing out the ways in which constructions of race, class and gender (and sometimes sexuality and age) have shaped national histories.
Despite his long-winded reply, Gary Morgan fails to address my response to this assertion; in fact, he misses the whole point. I was not discussing ...