Michel Foucault gave the museum and the mental hospital as two different examples of heterotopias.
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Heterotopia
//ˌhɛt(ə)ɹəˈtəʊpiə//
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For Foucault, heterotopias are not imagined places but real places that almost delete themselves from public consciousness. They are null sites in awareness, yet inevitable and vital to the construction of space.
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