Emptying the Shelves Nnadi Au-delà des performances

Au-delà des performances

The publication is the result of a research project developed by the 16th Session of the curatorial formation of the Magasin

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Emptying the Shelves Nnadi Au-delà des performancesEmptying the Shelves traces how Dutch ethnographic museums among them the Dutch National Museum of World Cultures and its predecessors have shaped and reshaped their displays over the past century. Drawing on a trove of archival exhibition photographs and contemporary essays, it charts the transition from crowded cabinets to austere white cube displays, with most objects now in storage facilities. With texts by Tamarah Kerr de Haan, Clmentine Deliss