Abstract
Just as Hamlet contains "words, words, words," museums hold and display objects, objects, objects. Depending on how they are presented these objects may be seen as art, or as entertainment, or as embodiments of knowledge and ideas.This article is about the meaning of artifacts displayed in a natural science museum. It starts from a single object, a dinosaur fossil very conspicuously advertised and displayed by Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. That fossil, and its surrounding exhibits, are used as tools for the examination of the science museum in historical context, to see the museum's relation to our society, to corporate culture, and to science itself.
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