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The Universal Museum and the World鈥檚 Fair collect all times and places in one space, for the public to marvel at and be instructed. But what does the whole world look like in microcosm? Who decides what narratives and what objects (or what living people) are present? Who is welcome in these spaces and how are they instructed in the right way to use them? As universal museums and fairs grew and changed throughout the 19th and 20th century, they answered these questions in different ways鈥攚ays that still shape the spaces we live in and how we encounter the past.This course explores the development of the Universal Museum and the World鈥檚 Fair in Britain and America from the foundation of the British Museum to the present day through case studies of key events and institutions. We will consider how historical narratives, especially of the 鈥渄eep鈥� past, have been inseparable from narratives of scientific discovery and industrial innovation and celebrations of conquest, progress, and futurity. We will trace how museums and fairs have served as a means of constructing racial, ethnic, national, and imperial identities. Yet while universal museums and fairs have sought to define, taxonomise, and control, they have always done so in dialogue with different constituencies, including those they put on display. We will look at how different participants have received and resisted these messages. Recognising these 鈥榰niversal鈥� spaces and their stories as always contested and conflicted from their inception will lead us right into ongoing debates about decolonisation in museums, the aims of public history, and the future of the universal museum and the exhibition of everything.This course will take you around London, to some of its major museums, and encourage exploration in your own time of how collecting and display has shaped the city we inhabit today, inscribing narratives about the past and microcosms of the world into our everyday lives.

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