Introduction

In this final section, the book moves to look at some of the diverse strategies of representation and of telling the stories of objects and collections. Drawing together the themes of the previous three sections of this book, these chapters illustrate the variety of approaches which can be taken and how these are impacted by context, the collector and the relationship between object and person. Looking first at the relevance and applications of in situ reconstructions at iron furnaces and the practice of iron production in Ghana, then at the competing narratives of motoring history embodied in roadside memorials and in conventional museums and histories of motoring, followed by the personal collection of Eleni Stathatos and lastly an alternative approach which could be used in displays of prehistoric anthropology.