ABSTRACT
Historically, museums are successors of private collections and thus increasing visibility was a crucial part of establishing modern museum institutions. By providing access to collected objects, museums seemed egalitarian and democratic in their service. However, they represented a particular system of Western knowledge, even though presented objects were taken from all over the world. The gap grew between Western terms and categories on the one hand and things that were not inherently part of Western society on the other hand. This rendered objects and knowledge invisible that were not a product of this particular cultural and epistemic system.
