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- Title
HOW TO CURATE A CENTAUR AND OTHER STORIES OF MYTHMAKING IN MUSEUMS.
- Authors
Kozlovski, Alina
- Abstract
The article explores stories of mythmaking about creatures or objects from different museum collections and how to curate such objects. These myths include a narwal tusk at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York linked to unicorn horns, a unicorn skeleton at the Natural History Museum in Germany identified as a mixture of wooly rhinoceros and mammoth, and a griffin claw at the British Museum connected to St. Cuthbert, whose shrine in Durham, England has two claws and griffin eggs.
- Subjects
MYTHICAL animals; MUSEUM curatorship; MUSEUM collection catalogs; TUSKS; NARWHAL; UNICORNS; GRIFFINS; ART museums
- Publication
Teaching History (0040-0602), 2022, Vol 56, Issue 3, p4
- ISSN
0040-0602
- Publication type
Article