Utstillingen som dokumentasjonsform i moderne og postmoderne tider

The Exhibition as Document in Modern and Postmodern Times The aim of this article is to focus on whether we can speak of modern and postmodern exhibitions as two separate categories. What are the main characteristics that separate the postmodern museum exhibition from its former counterpart? The concept of modernity has been perceived in several different ways from the 5th century AD up to the 20th century. Pitt Rivers published «The Evolution of Culture» in 1875. Both this publication and his ethnographical exhibition in Oxford revealed how the concept of modernity had become Darwinist. Man (i.e. European man) had gradually reached higher levels of development, and linear arrangements of artefacts in vast rows (from primitive towards advanced) were intended to verify this Darwinist discourse. His Oxford exhibition can be considered as objectoriented.