from The New York Times
Works, the Whole Works and Nothing but the Works
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As museums face increasing pressure to open up their collections to greater ease of access, one strategy is to revisit the idea of open storage display. But having seen a turn towards selective but interpretative displays from an earlier all-encompassing encyclopaedic one, the discovery could be that the average museum-goer exists only as an abstraction for marketing (and possibly political) purposes. Different groups of museum-goers would be best catered for by employing different modes of presentation. There are no inherently better or worse methods of display - only more appropriate ones given the function or message of the presentation and the intended audience group.