| “At the birth of the Museum, a division was drawn between the private space where the curator, as expert. produced knowledge (exhibitions, catalogues, lectures) and the public space where the visitor consumed those appropriately presented products. A deep cleft was formed that separated out the practices of the museum workers from those of the visitor. The experiences of the museum, its collections, and its specialist processes, was different on either size of this divide. The lack of knowledge of the visitor's reactions and responses constituted the curator as ignorant in respect of the audience for whom the museums intellectual products were intended. Now, the division and private and public has begun to close.” 6 |
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