The Museum and its Objects: Heritage and Narratives about “the others”

The objects and narratives of anthropological museums have recently become the subject of many studies from various areas of knowledge. Until the 1980s, anthropological theories did not specifically address these institutions. They only started to integrate them at the turn of the 19^th to the 20^th century. Nowadays, museums are studied, analyzed, criticized, and blamed by the academic community and social movements because of the way they interpret and display cultures. Researchers can, through objects, discover opportunities to investigate and understand how a particular museum in Spain became one of the references in universal culture because of the way it exhibits its collections.