As significant elements in civil society, museums articulate social ideas. They define relations with communities whether they intend to or not Ivan Karp (From the introduction to Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture. I. Karp, C.M. Kreamer and S.D. Lavine, editors. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.)
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