Leiden University Student Repository

Zhang, Hao (2012)

Making cooperation in a transnational exhibition

Master thesis | Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (MSc)

Nowadays, transnational exhibitions play a significant role in the museum communication. By making transnational exhibitions, museums can communicate to each other, absorb others’ advantages and become more international. Furthermore, visitors can have a better opportunity to know other cultures. In this thesis, I try to introduce how to make co-operation in a transnational exhibition. My case study is the Terracotta Warriors exhibition of National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden. I introduce the process of this transnational exhibition in my thesis, and describe museums how to negotiate a transnational exhibition, how to choose objects, and how to arrange objects. Meanwhile, I also try to find the co-operation between presentation and culture, such as how museums use limited objects to exhibit other culture in transnational exhibitions. My main theory support is from James Clifford, “Museum as contact zones” (Clifford, 1997).

transnational exhibition

museum co-operation

ethnographical museum

Terracotta Warriors

Author

Zhang, Hao

Faculty

Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences

Specialisation

Media, Visual and Material Culture,Museum track

Supervisors

Francozo, Mariana

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en