Challis, D;
(2013)
Creating typecasts: exhibiting eugenic ideas from the past today.
Museum Management and Curatorship
, 28
(1)
15 - 33.
10.1080/09647775.2012.754627.
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Abstract
This paper reflects on the experience of curating the exhibition and events programme around Typecast: Flinders Petrie and Francis Galton at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London during 2011. Typecast explored ideas around race and archaeology, heredity and eugenics in the early twentieth century. After independent consultation, I decided to write about the exhibition from my own perspective and publicly identify myself as curator. As part of my own response, I drew parallels with contemporary events and issues today. This paper incorporates a discussion of: •the implications of using my personal identity; how situations could have been handled differently, •the myth of neutrality, especially around contentious issues, within museum and media institutions, •anonymous responses from visitors and identified critical voices; ethical responsibility in dealing with provocative issues, •how wider discussion in a public realm was facilitated.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Creating typecasts: exhibiting eugenic ideas from the past today |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09647775.2012.754627 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2012.754627 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2013 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted. Permission is granted subject to the terms of the License under which the work was published. Please check the License conditions for the work which you wish to reuse. Full and appropriate attribution must be given. This permission does not cover any third party copyrighted material which may appear in the work requested. |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1457061 |
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