I'm losing my mind/contextual approach

When an individual is going to create a museum, they need to gather or use artifacts. They must take these artifacts out of the context they are in to tell a story with them in their museum. Pearce talks about a contextual approach. Often times, we need to think of these objects as being in context still to understand the full story. We also talked about how putting something in a museum makes it have meaning. This could end up being a very bad thing sometime in the future. Museums need to be credible sources of the truth and when there isn’t a contextual approach to the museum; the viewer might make up their own story. When I went to the Bodies Exhibit in Seattle, the bodies were placed in a different context than someone may normally think of dead bodies. They may think that their context should be in a cemetery or even cremated. They had no name or personality type or anything other personal information associated with them. If they had though, it would have taken away from what the museum truly wanted for viewers to take from it. They wanted it to be educational and only educational. Having that extra information may have taken away from that part of the museum. However, people like me really want to know those things and it may help us look at the Bodies in that educational way rather than asking too many questions about whom they were or where they came from. I think the contextual approach is successful depending on what the museum wants their viewers to see. If they want to tell a story from history then it does need to focus on the contextual approach but if it is just an Exhibit full of bodies, some of the context may be unnecessary and take away from what the museum really wants.