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Truth and Untruth in the Museum Exhibition

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New Queries in Aesthetics and Metaphysics

Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana ((ANHU,volume 37))

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Museological dissertations often try to define the function of museum exhibitions. Museum exhibitions are conceived of there as 1) those which present objects of artistic or scientific documentary value, or 2) those which transmit knowledge (mostly fundamental, elementary and, in every case “ready” knowledge) to various categories of visitors (mostly unprofessional ones).

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  1. See Roman Ingarden, Studia z Estetyki (Studies on Aesthetics), (Warsaw: 1958).

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  2. J. Swiecimski, “Scientific Information Function and Ingarden’s Theory of Forms,” Analecta Husserliana Vol. IV (Dordrecht/Boston: 1974).

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Swiecimski, J. (1991). Truth and Untruth in the Museum Exhibition. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) New Queries in Aesthetics and Metaphysics. Analecta Husserliana, vol 37. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3394-4_25

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