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...Classified Documents: The Social Museum of Harvard University: 1903-1931,” the newest exhibit at the Sackler Museum, asks a lot of the viewer. Namely, that we have enough faith in the museum not to leave after 15 minutes...
...original Social Museum attempted to order this cacophony into digestible educational panels. The panels were so numerous that the ‘new’ Social Museum at the Sackler, on display through April 22, includes only a fraction (120 out of more than 3,000) of the originals...
...With this selection, however, the curators have been exceedingly timid. Fred Wilson’s groundbreaking “Mining the Museum” exhibition at the Maryland Historical Society in 1992 greatly expanded the possible approaches to exhibiting a museum within a museum...
...However, the curators of “Classified Documents,” though they have included some provocative wall texts and some interesting non-photographic panels, seem to have tended away from Wilson’s daring reexamination of museum rhetoric...
Studen outlined current construction projects taking place at Harvard, including renovations of the current Fogg and Busch-Reisinger museum building; Fairfax Hall, which houses the Leavitt & Pierce cigar store; Rockefeller Hall at the Harvard Divinity School; and the New College Theatre on the former site of the Hasty Pudding...