PRISM Volume 2

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Museums Victoria's interdisciplinary humanities journal

Explore humanities research from Museums Victoria and across the museum sector with the latest volume of PRISM. This volume examines museum collections, architecture and exhibitions, with articles from curators, collection managers, artists and academics. 

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A museum with its walls physically dissolved, breaking down barriers between inside and outside. An elderly man browses museum displays.

Towards a counter-museum

Rory Hyde 
People gather at a tomb. There group dressed in black sitting on the steps of the monument, there is another group dressed in blue sitting on the grass facing the monument.

A story of repatriation

Veisinia Tonga
A printed document with black text in languages other than English.

The evolution of objects

Daniel Haumschild & Simon Holloway 
A curved white piece of cardboard that reads '"SILVER DEATH" bait card for destruction of silverfish'.

Silver Death

Nicholas Crotty
A woman walks through the entrance of the exhibition.

Foundations of Our Wondrous Planet: Guiding values and concepts for a new exhibition

Kate Phillips

William Blandowski goes bush! The lower Murray expedition, 1856–1857

Tim Stranks 
A large group of smiling people pose for a photo in front of a forested area.

Berlin’s Australian Archive: Reframing nature as cultural belonging

Millu Wudungi Brendan Kennedy, Aunty Glenda Nicholls, Rebecca Carland & Anja Schwarz

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