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uman evolution to be taken in at a glance. Pitt Rivers’s purpose was to arrange his collections ‘in such a manner that those who run may read’ (A. P. Rivers.1891:115-116). The collection is presented to the eye of the public in a most instructive and attractive manner. The visitors come to the museum, not only to obtain an aesthetic feeling by immerse them in the artifacts, but also is to receive a kind of a sense of history. This can arrive by connecting themselves with the artifacts directly, to experience the holiness of genuine art and a feeling of excitement. That is what Walter Benjamin called ‘aura’ in the original work which cannot be replaced by a reproduction. The traditional one way exhibition communication has been revised not only for the interest of the visitors’ needs and preferences, but also attempting to go into dialogue with the users on a shared vision for the museum.

 

2.1.4 Museum and Representation

 

Generally speaking, representation of museum concerns the ways in which the meaning are formed, conveyed, and shared. The museum space provides a microcosmic reconstruction of the order of things representing the world outside the walls. The consequences of particular forms of representation in terms of the distribution of power as they are related to the ideology discourse of the museum. For artifact, once placed in the museum, it becomes inherently a rhetorical object, thickly lacquered with layers of interpretation like a book or a film. Hall argued that, language system is operated through representation, meaning is produced or constructed rather than ‘discovered’.( S. Hall.) In the same way, the exhibition can also be treated as language communication to convey meaning. It has transformed the analysis of museums to ‘texts’ or ‘media’, so as to analyze the process of production (encoding/writing) and consumption (decoding/reading) in meaning of presentation, as well as content (text) and the interrelationships between these.

 

In the early time, the object exhibition depends on texts to uncover the complex relations behind the objects. From 17th century on, with the development of science and humanities, the knowledge structure has changed radically. In contract, the new exhibition required no explanation by text, because the knowledge can be presented before people’s eyes when objects that belong to the same category are put together by taxonomy classification. Under this exhibition method, visitors can have a dialogue with the nature world (Xu Ben 50).

 

The museum has been constantly subject to demands of reform. The discourse of reform, mainly characterized by two principles: first, the principle of public rights, that museums should be equally open and accessible to all; second, the principle of representational adequacy, that museum should adequately represent the cultures and values of different groups of the public( T. Bennett 1990). Principle of representational adequacy required to tell the story of Man, whether on the basis of the gendered, racial, class or other social patt本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。