Over the years, culture, ethnicity and national identity through museums have been shaped as the world emerged through globalization and postcolonialism. Through globalization and postcolonialism, people around the world have become aware of different cultural and ethnic groups. This process of understanding different cultures can be understood through museums. A correct understanding of culture can be attributed through visual perspective, and this is what the museum offers to people who visit public and national museums. The essay will examine the difficulties and positive aspects found within museums regarding the accurate representation of the cultures on display. Furthermore, we will examine how globalization, post-colonialism, multiculturalism and transnationalism have played a role in modern museums and how difficulties through the "politics of representation" have linked to globalization, post-colonialism, multiculturalism and transnationalism. The term “politics of representation” refers to “the language used in a text or discourse to assign meaning to groups and their social practices, events, conditions and social and ecological objects (Wenden, 2005: 90) . Inside museums there are exhibitors responsible for the representation policy. Inside each museum there is staff who have the task and duty of being curators of the collections present in the museum. When viewers go to museums, they aim to attempt to visually understand the collections available for viewing. Baxandall (1991: 33-34) states that the viewer has two specific purposes when visiting a museum and that is to look at visually interesting objects. T...... middle of paper...... Culture and the Museum. London: Routledge, 41-51.Karp, I. 1991. Culture and representation. Exhibiting cultures: the poetics and politics of museum exhibition. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 11-24.Pieterse, J.N. 2005. Multiculturalism and museums. Discourse on others in the era of globalization, in G. Corsane (ed.), Heritage, museums and galleries: an introductory reader. London: Routledge. 163 – 183.Simpson, M. G. 1996. Making Representations: Museums in the Postcolonial Era. London: Routledge. Chapter 5: From the treasure house to the museum. . . and back, 107-134. Young, L. 2007. Globalization, culture and museums: a review of theory. International Journal of Heritage Studies 5(1): 6-15.Wenden, AL. 2005. THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF AN ALJAZEERA SPECIAL REPORT. International Journal of Peace Studies, 10 (2): 89-112.