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From field to museum

Taking objects out of their original context and exhibiting them in a museum gives them a new meaning. They used to be utilitarian or religious, status symbols or hunting weapons and they become storytellers with a new aim, that of giving museum goers access to knowledge of ethnic groups living elsewhere and otherwise.

Exhibit

Then it is time to exhibit the objects in their new context of agency, the museum.

Opening of the Nepal exhibition at the MEG, 28 March 1953. The director of the museum, Marguerite Lobsiger-Dellenbach, is talking in front of the Nepalese window brought back from Patan.
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Bibliograpy

• Lobsiger-Dellenbach, Marguerite. 1954. Népal, catalogue de la collection d'ethnographie népalaise du Musée d'ethnographie de la Ville de Genève. Genève: Ville de Genève., 62