Functions

Museums can show us history through objects.

They also show us what it means to be human.

They reveal, partly in how things are displayed, how we have a need to classify most things, practically and conceptually.

Looking at manmade objects from the recent and distant past makes us think how important and clever we are – how ingenious but also how cruel. We venerate the past and our ancestors. 

The three ‘functions’ that follow are just one way of looking at museums.