THERE IS NO STANDARD INTERPRETATION. MISREADING VERSUS THE MUSEUM PUBLIC

Abstract

Resorting to the arguments of the theory of the interpretation of culture texts, particularly Harold Bloom’s concept of misreading, the power of interpretative ascertainment achieved by the museum public and the museum institution is equalled. Relating the literature theories to the museum realm, the Author discloses the contingency (namely the conditioning always dependent on the context) of the interpretative activity in a museum institution. In a series of four intellectual experiments the interpretative instability of a museum object is approximated, while its possible consequences for a museum institution are pointed to.