ABSTRACT
A key component of museum practice, and one that is discussed at length in almost every introductory text and on every professional body’s website, is interpretation. This chapter explores the tension between the opening up of interpretation in museums and the continued hierarchisation of ways of knowing and being, between inclusion and exclusion, diversity and uniformity. Literature calling for the opening up of meaning-making in museums is diverse and motivated by a range of aims and objectives. As will become clear, some authors emphasize the need for a breadth of perspectives from as wide a contributor base as possible, while others are concerned with engaging very specific communities. Exposing interpretive frameworks, museum practitioners might also employ a range of strategies designed to acknowledge and make visible multiplicity, open-endedness, relationality. Exposing interpretive frameworks is a good place to start to queer/ing documentation.
