Today, the Museum of Anthropology endeavours to represent multiple voices. The new classification system will be more responsive to community concerns; this may mean that some of the objects will be better contextualized by reorganization and by the addition of text, video, and input from communities.

A bowl will no longer necessarily be grouped with other containers belonging to the same culture, but could find itself in the company of other objects. By taking into account the multiple layers of meaning inherent to objects, not only will we recognize their inherent complexity we will perhaps gain a different view of the world.