The Exotic World Museum is a small amateur ethnographic museum created by Harold
Morgan and founded on his extensive tourist travels with his wife Barbara. It consists of over
500 pictures, photographs, labels and artifacts which cover the walls and ceiling of the back room
of Alexander Lamb's Wunderkammer Antiques, where it is currently housed. Through this
museum, Morgan has created an identity for himself as a world traveler and a learned man. As
such, the collection stands as a narrative of Morgan's life, portraying the identity he has projected
for himself.
Morgan constructs this identity by establishing authenticity through the Museum and
tourist experience, by using the National Geographic as a projection in which to place himself,
and by creating an encounter between Self and Other. As such, the study of Exotic World has
larger implications in the context of the history of museums and of collecting in general.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/11817 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Krose, Sarah Elizabeth |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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