ABSTRACT
More commonly, objects are used by faith museums to explain their faith, both to their own faithful and to outsiders. This has been especially a characteristic of European Protestant churches. Something of the same has long taken place in the held of religion, but there is a vast expansion of museums and museum-type visitor attractions intended to promote particular religions, very often from the perspective of one section of that faith. 'Objects promotional' are often modern media such as dioramas, animatronics and videos, rather than the traditional museum object. Objects can be helped to speak nowadays by much more than simply the old-fashioned label and the odd blown-up photograph. The successful museum is the one that uses other display techniques to reinforce the objects' voice, but that gives original objects the leading role—for they have a power to speak that nothing else has. The most unlikely objects can be persuaded to help argue the case for a religious cause.
