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Giant Sleeping Cat... and more

Yesterday, I went to the special exhibition at Manchester Museum called 'The Cat that Slept for a Thousand Years'.  At one level it was a gimic to get people into the museum. At another level it was a quiet space to slow down and chill (I recall a zone in the Millennium Dome that had music that would take 1000 years to repeat, which had a similar feel). At yet another level it was a way of finding one thread (cats great and small) to follow through different exhibits in the museum (with an optional augmented reality game thingy you could download - I didn't!). At yet another it was a creative way of encouraging people to engage with the museum.

There was also a leaflet called 'Decolonise' which invites visitors to rethink their approach to the exhibits they discover, with a couple of areas of the museum specifically devoted to what might be termed 'revisionist readings' of the artefacts... gently challenging white, western, enlightenment, colonial, acquisition of 'curiosities', and giving 'voices' to other cultures and even to the objects themselves.

I had a great day out, with lots to ponder as well as having fun visiting a giant inflatable cat!  

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