De-growing museum collections for new heritage futures

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Curators express the difficulty of collecting the material culture of everyday life when faced with vast existing collections. Jennie Morgan discusses curators’ frustrations with ‘the profusion struggle’. 

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Curators express the difficulty of collecting the material culture of everyday life when faced with vast existing collections. Jennie Morgan discusses curators’ frustrations with ‘the profusion struggle’. 

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