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A leading voice in museum education, Eilean Hooper-Greenhill (1999) argued that historically, museums have suffered from characterisations as dull institutions that simply preserve and conserve culture and beliefs that they attract solely the privileged and cultured, or those who are holidaying and have little better to do. These institutions have, of course, been elite and exclusionary and their cultural heritage preservation mandate ‘selective’, as Winchester (2012, p. 143) notes of their “singular, coherent, audible, intellectual narrative.”
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Thivierge, J. (2016). Exhibiting Dark Heritage. In: Clover, D.E., Sanford, K., Bell, L., Johnson, K. (eds) Adult Education, Museums and Art Galleries. International Issues in adult Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-687-3_13
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