the museum of babel: meditations on the return to curiosity

The Museum of Babel: Meditations on the Metahistorical Turn in Museography is an enlightening, transatlantic reading of contemporary exhibits of the museum’s own past. Thurner argues that the ghosts of the museum’s past evoked in these exhibits maps museography’s future.

Mark Thurner is a Reader in Latin American Studies in the School of Advanced Study at the University of London in the UK.