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Postmodern museum or refluent critic? A response to Rod Moran.(Western Australian Museum and Indigenous history)

Quadrant

| April 01, 2002 | Morgan, Gary | COPYRIGHT 2002 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

HAVING ATTEMPTED to address at least some of the views espoused by Keith Windschuttle with respect to the National Museum of Australia, I find myself responding to matters closer to home, namely the article by Rod Moran in Quadrant, January-February 2002, "Paradigm of the Postmodern Museum".

In this article, Rod Moran continues the attack on history museums in Australia, but in this case, the Western Australian Museum in Perth. While Windschuttle's article was wide ranging and identified few if any desirable traits in the National Museum of Australia, Moran's article is much more focused, attending to just one gallery of the Western Australian Museum, its ...

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