These Walls Could Talk is an attempt to reinterpret the historical narratives found in our history museums. On this site you will find alternative audio-tours of the the American Museum of Natural History, and a space for you to contribute your own.
These original audio-pieces are inspired by specific dioramas in the Culture Halls of the museum. These halls contain depictions of people throughout history and from around the world. However, as the “cultures” which they purport to represent continue to change, the dioramas remain static.
These Walls Could Talk is a collaboration in which contributors from diverse backgrounds give new voices to these characters through approaches including fiction, auto-biography and archival sound.
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This project is being undertaken by George Bixby, in partial fulfillment of a Masters of Fine Arts degree in
Design + Technology, at Parsons The New School For Design.
A project abstract can be downloaded here.
For more information, please contact bixbg787[at]newschool.edu
These Walls Could Talk by George Bixby is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.by