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Doomed?

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Morgan J (2020) Doomed?. In: Heritage Futures: Comparative Approaches to Natural and Cultural Heritage Practices. London: UCL Press, pp. 238-248. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787356009

Abstract
First paragraph: As we saw at the end of Chapter 13, sending items from a home to a museum is a way of removing them from one¡¯s immediate surroundings, but it is certainly not about stopping them from being kept for the future. On the contrary, it is a way of trying to ensure that they endure for longer than things usually do in domestic time frames, for ¡®the future¡¯ in domestic temporalities is usually only envisaged, if at all, as at most a generation or two. Museums, by contrast, promise a longer, generally unspecified, future ¨C ¡®for posterity¡¯; a future, moreover, in which objects will be valued as official heritage.

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Publication date31/12/2020
Publication date online20/07/2020
PublisherUCL Press
Place of publicationLondon
ISBN 9781787356023
eISBN9781787356009

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Dr Jennie Morgan

Dr Jennie Morgan

Senior Lecturer in Heritage, History