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Museum, Ruins, History

Mummy and coffin of Meresamun

"Boredom of the ceremonial scenes depicted in historical paintings, and boredom in general. Boredom and museum. Boredom and battle scenes." — Proust The museum is the accumulation of ruins and culture, culture in ruins, which is to say in one word, history. There, ambiguity reigns: one is at a loss as to the whether all [...]