ABSTRACT
Photographs are used in museum displays for a variety of different purposes (see Unit 50). These include creating a mood, illustrating the present appearance of an archaeological site, illustrating comparable objects, bringing into the story buildings or large objects that could not themselves fit into a gallery, enlarging very small objects and so on. X-ray photographs can be used to show the internal detail of objects. Museums should avoid the temptation to use too many photographs, and they should only be included if they serve a real purpose in the interpretation.
