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The Imperial Hand Paints the Ascent of Man: Interpreting the Maritime as History of Technology (2006)

Albert, Dan (Author)

Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Volume: 12
Pages: 23-29

URI: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23787051

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Museum exhibits History of technology, as a discipline Anthropology Museums, Science Architecture, Naval Ethnography Boats Museum curators 21st century 20th century Great Britain Science Museum, London

This paper examines public maritime history over a century and a half. The museum's shipping galleries include a significant number of non-European small craft juxtaposed with European boats and ships. As with the artifacts in many other museums, these non-European boats initially were collected to display the grand theories of late-Victorian anthropology. They were subsequently redisplayed geographically. In the process of this redisplay, the museum chose to bury a powerful yet deeply racialized scientific narrative. This paper examines how we might usefully disinter that narrative, warts and all, for a museum-going audience made up primarily of scurrying children and the parents who chase them.

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Article Jane Insley (2006) Little Landscapes: Agriculture, Dioramas and the Science Museum. Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology (pp. 5-14). unapi

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Article Ben Russell (2006) Mind the Gap! Interpreting the History of Technology in the Science Museum. Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology (pp. 15-22). unapi

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