RT Journal Article
T1 �Everything passes, except the past�
A1 Donata Miller
YR 2019
VO 12
IS Autumn 2019
K1 decolonial approaches
K1  museum interpretation
K1  Democratic Republic of the Congo
K1  Central Africa
K1  Royal Museum of Central Africa
AB 
NO Readers might see, for example, The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House (Lourde, 2018); Decolonisation is Not a Metaphor (Tuck and Yang, 2012); Museum as Process (McCarthy, 2015); Decolonising the Museum (Wintle, 2013); Decolonizing the Smithsonian (Wintle, 2016); Museums, Heritage and Indigenous Voice (Onciul, 2015).
NO For information on the display of humans in Britain, see Qureshi, S, 2011, Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain (University of Chicago Press).
NO For an analysis of Tintin in the Congo (translated from French) see http://usslave.blogspot.com/2011/04/tintin-in-congo-analysis.html?m=1 
NO For an article regarding the early twentieth-century disconnect between the curatorial voice and the visitor experience, see Skotnes-Brown, J, From the White Man’s Grave to the White Man’s Home? Experiencing ‘Tropical Africa’ at the 1924–25 British Empire Exhibition (Science Museum Group Journal, Issue 11).
NO For a definition of community of origin, see Saggar, S A, 2019, ‘Community of Origin’, Decolonial Dictionary, https://decolonialdictionary.wordpress.com/2019/06/11/community-of-origin/ (accessed 19 June 2019)
PB The Science Museum Group
SN 2054-5770
LA eng
DO 10.15180/191213
UL http://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/browse/issue-12/everything-passes-except-the-past/
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WT Science Museum Group Journal
OL 30