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colonialism, 14, 39, 20, 22–4, 50, 113–21, databases, 74, 130, 132, 136
131 data processing, see information
commodities, 15, 28–36, 99, 102, 143 processing
as feminine, 123 death, 38–43, 59, 74
see also fetishism; aesthetics decolonization, 102
community museums, 115–17, 151 decontextualisation, 27–8, 71, 92, 134,
computers/computing, 71, 87, 90, 136, 146 138–9, 142
see also cybernetics; digital media; decoration, see ornament
interactivity; internet; new media design exhibitions, 36
Conn, S., 34, 45 desire, 32
constructivism, 61, 76 department stores, 8, 25–26, 28, 29–36, 44,
consumerism, 9, 19, 34–5, 67 46, 53, 61, 64, 67
and gender, 30 de-schooling, 151
consumption, 9, 26, 32–5, 44, 50, 67, 122, Deutsches Museum, Munich, 83–4
131, 137, 143 Dewey, J., 91, 95–8
conspicuous, 19–20 Dicks, B., 4
see also visitors; commodities digital media, see new media
contact zones, 109, 118, 144, 154 dime museums, 25, 154
Cook, J., Capt., 22, 23, 26 Dinosaurs and their Living Relatives
copies, see mass reproduction exhibition (1979), 75
Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, 87 Dion, M., 131
corporate sponsorship, 35–6, 152 Dioramas, 31, 33, 44–52, 53, 56, 59, 61, 63,
le Corbusier, 69, 134, 135 111–12, 145
Council for Industrial Design, 102 discipline, 1, 50, 54, 90, 103, 106, 112, 132
Crary, J., 53 discourse, 4, 74, 154
Crimp, D., 1 Disneyfication, 60
Crystal Palace, see Great Exhibition display
Cruikshank, G., 24 techniques, 3, 30, 34, 37, 42, 44–52,
Culin, S., 5, 8, 31 58–9, 94, 106, 107, 144–54
cultural studies, 1, 2, 4, 10, 70, 95, 154 unintelligibility of, 43–4, 103–6, 107–8
cultural capital, 110–11, 150 see also exhibition design
cultural diversity, 117, 145 distraction, see attention
culture as tradition, 119–20 Dorner, A., 61
culture industry, 80 dreams/fantasies, 99–100, 112–13
Culver, S., 32 Duchamp, M., 62–3, 69
curio museums, see dime museums Duncan, C., 1, 16, 101–2, 111
curiosities, 15, 20–26, 55, 104, 106, 125, Duprat, H., 153
143, 153–4 Durham, J., 120–1, 131
curiosity, 4, 21, 24–5, 88, 122, 125, 129,
143–54 education, 34–5, 41, 44, 46, 56–7, 75, 77,
curiosity cabinets, 15, 20–23, 25, 144–5, 88, 106, 132, 150
153–4 behaviourist, 89, 95
Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition (1968), consumer education, 35
87–90 and cultural capital, 111
cybernetics, 88–90 hands-on, 84, 91, 95–8
edutainment, 60
dada, 61–2 Egypt Exploration Fund, 39
Darwin, C./ Darwinism, 51, 139, 151 Egyptian Hall, 47
Darwin Centre at the Natural History Elgin Marbles, 114
Museum, London, 151 Empire and Commonwealth Museum,
Daston, L., 88–9 Bristol, 116–17