Representation: museums and publications

Abstract

Museums, until recently, have been mostly silent about sexuality in the past. But as scholars from different disciplines continue to recover those still‐hidden histories, museums can become portals into other worlds and alternative understandings. New York's Museum of Sex exemplifies how to represent the diversity of sexual pasts in a city. As archaeologists deepen our understandings of gendered and sexual differences in ancient cities around the world, a longer and comparative history of sexuality can be exhibited.