I saw the Dead Sea Scrolls about a decade ago and was struck by the way that it presented the ongoing historical debate over their original context and meaning. As I recall it, when you walked into the first room of the exhibit you were surrounded on all sides by a dozen or so different competing and often dramatically contradictory scholarly summaries of who wrote the Scrolls, what the texts meant to them, and what it meant about the wider society. I'd never before encountered a museum of any kind that put such clear, physical emphasis on the idea of presenting an ongoing debate and competing narratives as opposed to disseminating established knowledge or something like that.

So I'm curious what scholarship informed the design philosophy of the Scrolls exhibit. What are the big articles or books (or politics, or whatever) that I should read to understand why the designers made the decisions they did? Why does it seem to emphasize the discursive approach to history so much more than do most archaeology museums/exhibits that I've seen? I'd also be interested in any more general information that would give me an overview of current theory-of-archaeological-museums, if that's a thing. Academic sources fine.