Research & Article

This article examines the understanding of museum and display through sensory concept and epistemology so as to unravel the ideological practice that is hidden behind the background of museum works.

The heart of the article dwells in the exploration of problems related to modernity and conceptual debate on sensory. On the one hand, the communication form in museum is determined by seeing, which is related to rationality. On the other hand, the way of seeing has come to be legitimated with power relationship, racism ideology and ideological colonialism.

These highlighted issues do not merely reveal the limited narration within the display only. They reflect a limitation of ideas in museum that cannot be extended beyond itself into a space of cultural contestation.