Ting som aktører. Refleksioner over genstande med udgangspunkt i udstillingen Skriv

Technical museums are packed with things taken out of the original context and left alone for general admiration. One kind of stuff in museums consists of writing tools, from quill and ink via typewriters to mobile phones with onscreen keyboards. In 2015, the Danish Museum of Science and Technology opened a new exhibition about writing tools. It had as its main purpose to open up for an understanding of how the tools we use in our everyday life have an impact on what we do and how we do it. The article is inspired by the material turn and discusses, with this exhibition as a case, what happens when museums want to tell stories about use based on objects no longer usable in the original sense, but converted to cultural heritage to be displayed behind glass. In short, the article is about objects as the core of museum work.