Museum as Text

The Reading of Museum is the title of a book by Reza Dabirinezhad that has just been published and is available to the Iranian academic and cultural community. The author is a museum specialist and one of the renowned executives of the country’s museums, who uses the methodology of semiotics to analyze the mechanism of the interpretation of museum objects and the Semantic System in museums. Since this is a new subject matter and enough scientific literature has not been formed around it yet, this article first explains the relationship between the knowledge of semiotics and the institution of the museum, and then moves on to limit the scope of geography of the topic of semiotics and the museum. Then, with a critical look, the topics discussed in the Reading of Museum are reviewed.