Visual Arts · Art Theory & Visual Culture
A topic within Art Theory & Visual Culture, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Visual Arts.
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John Cotton Dana
Argues the American museum had made itself irrelevant by hoarding treasures behind glass for scholars, and proposes a museum organised instead around what ordinary visitors can actually use.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Benjamin Ives Gilman
Argues most museum installation actively works against looking, producing "museum fatigue" through crowded cases and bad lighting, and proposes design and labelling aimed at sustained attention to a few objects rather than encyclopaedic display.
link checked 17 Sept 2026