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VisualEyes: A Modular Software System for Oculomotor Experimentation
Published on: March 25, 2011
[The passing eye: museums, public education, and the visualization of scientific evidence]
1Archivo Histórico del Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires.
Abstract:
In this examination of certain issues related to the history of museums. An emphasis on the functions and missions entrusted to museums does not necessarily reflect the power museums have to create habits or shape meanings. To the contrary, this may reflect the actual fragility of museums and their need to resort to rhetoric to attract governmental favors and funds. Therefore, concentrating on the monumental, representative, or metaphorical aspects of museums obscures the history of these institutions and of their consolidated practices, there by naturalizing the separation between research space and public space and leaving the historian to play the role of an uninitiated observer of the 'cathedrals of science'.
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