Displaying Archaeology: Recent Developments and Trends in Archaeological Exhibitions

Session Proposed by J. Eleazar R. Bersales, Ph.D., Head Curator, University of San Carlos Museum and Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Sociology and History, University of San Carlos, Cebu City

This session invites museum curators, researchers and young scholars to present papers that reflect on how archaeologists present the past to the general public through museum exhibitions.
 
Archaeologists work with museums to eventually present the results of their work through the material remains recovered. This is intended to inform the public and fulfills the important criterion of public access to otherwise ‘specialist’ knowledge. How significant results are presented can often become venues of contentious debate and discourse among the public, however.
 
This session will look at the ways archaeologists work with curators or act as curators themselves as they present the past through different exhibition designs, pedagogical techniques, and collections management protocols, all of which shape the non-archaeologist’s perception of the past.