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The Spaces of Myth: Rethinking the history museum through mythology at the Old Staatsmuseum
Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2022.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/89126 The Spaces of Myth: Rethinking the history museum through mythology at the Old Staatsmuseum Silindzile, Shongwe yeshpil@gmail.com Pillay, Yeshayran history museums hapticity mythology ocularcentricism UCTD Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2022. History museums in the 21st century are facing an identity crisis and nearing irrelevance. Their devolution has made history separate from the present, controlled and binary, often resulting in a mono-epistemic narrative of history where the West has prevailed and has thus limited its function as a custodian of history. Museums have slowly decentralised into containers of collections and passive observance, cut off from the public realm. In post-industrial cities, such as Pretoria, a lack of good museum public space scarcely allows for discussion and exposure to ideas. Ocularcentrism has produced an architecture of detachment and isolation. Museum architecture’s role is often reduced to a subservient one concerned with pleasing the eye and lacked engagement of all the bodily senses. The intention is to reconcile the modern history museum’s limitations with the contingency of history and time. This proposal considers a mythic interpretation of history. Such an approach presents a heterogeneous and inclusive perspective and moves beyond the object into an intangible, ambiguous, and sublime nature of history and heritage. Architecture MArch (Prof) Unrestricted 2023-02-03T10:06:43Z 2023-02-03T10:06:43Z 2023 2022 Mini Dissertation * A2023 https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/89126 en © 2022 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | history museums hapticity mythology ocularcentricism UCTD The Spaces of Myth: Rethinking the history museum through mythology at the Old Staatsmuseum |
| title | The Spaces of Myth: Rethinking the history museum through mythology at the Old Staatsmuseum |
| title_full | The Spaces of Myth: Rethinking the history museum through mythology at the Old Staatsmuseum |
| title_fullStr | The Spaces of Myth: Rethinking the history museum through mythology at the Old Staatsmuseum |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Spaces of Myth: Rethinking the history museum through mythology at the Old Staatsmuseum |
| title_short | The Spaces of Myth: Rethinking the history museum through mythology at the Old Staatsmuseum |
| title_sort | spaces of myth rethinking the history museum through mythology at the old staatsmuseum |
| topic | history museums hapticity mythology ocularcentricism UCTD |
| url | https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/89126 |