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The new MOMU: meeting the family at Denmark's flagship Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2015

Neil Price
Neil Price*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Uppsala, Box 626, SE-751 26 Uppsala, Sweden (Email: neil.price@arkeologi.uu.se)
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I visited the new Moesgaard Museum in January 2015 on a grey and rainy day, and five hours later I left empowered with an unexpected feeling of optimism at human potential, reacquainted with what Larkin (1974: 19) called “the million-petalled flower of being here”, and not least, conscious again of the privilege of being an archaeologist, lucky enough to spend my professional life doing something so marvellous. Is the museum really that good? Yes.

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Antiquity , Volume 89 , Issue 344 , April 2015 , pp. 478 - 484
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd., 2015 

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References

Høiris, O., Madsen, H.J., Madsen, T. & Vellev, J.. (ed.). 1999. Menneskelivets mangfoldighed: arkæologisk og antropologisk forskning på Moesgård. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.Google Scholar
Larkin, P. 1974. The Old Fools. High Windows. London: Faber & Faber.Google Scholar
The museum's website can be found at: http://www.moesgaardmuseum.dk (Danish language, with a shorter English version via the menu tab; accessed 15 January 2015.)Google Scholar