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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 3291172, member: 93416&quot;]By coincidence I was just looking at this very matter.</p><p><br /></p><p>I presume all the great old museums were set up by collectors, who had a keen appreciation of how objects informed and encouraged a genuine understanding of the past.&nbsp; But the fact is, at least in some important cases, they are now directed by trustees who are political appointments, and whose interests, inevitably in the course of things, tend more towards contemporary political influence.</p><p><br /></p><p>You mention <b>fakes</b> just as I happened to be reading some work on museum philosophy by a Professor Sandis.&nbsp; (see his academia page:&nbsp; Constantine Sandis) Actually I had already pulled out and earmarked a few more contentious comments:</p><p><br /></p><p>Sandis &gt; I maintain the basic holistic view that the meaning and value of any given object is dependent on the context in which it is displayed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sandis &gt; It is simply an empirical falsehood that replicas fail to excite or inspire</p><p><br /></p><p>Sandis &gt; Indeed, we must re-evaluate our very ideal of authenticity.</p><p><br /></p><p>Am not sure who exactly this &quot;we&quot; is - but - count me out!</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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