Trapped. Museum experiments with relationality, empathetic imagination and perspective

This article presents a reflection on particular category of objects often found in ethnographic museum collections: traps. It asks what might be to this kind object, and these particularities teach us about making exhibitions, whether specifically traps or not. I argue that can ways engaging with mobilise call “empathetic imagination”. In the conclusion, reflect how exhibitions use artefacts reminiscent facilitate such engagement.