Exhibiting Europe in Museums

Exhibiting Europe in Museums
Author: Wolfram Kaiser
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1782382917
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Museums of history and contemporary culture face many challenges in the modern age. One is how to react to processes of Europeanization and globalization, which require more cross-border cooperation and different ways of telling stories for visitors. This book investigates how museums exhibit Europe. Based on research in nearly 100 museums across the Continent and interviews with cultural policy makers and museum curators, it studies the growing transnational activities of state institutions, societal organizations, and people in the museum field such as attempts to Europeanize collection policy and collections as well as different strategies for making narratives more transnational like telling stories of European integration as shared history and discussing both inward and outward migration as a common experience and challenge. The book thus provides fascinating insights into a fast-changing museum landscape in Europe with wider implications for cultural policy and museums in other world regions.

Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum

Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum
Author: Katrin Sieg
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2021-12-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0472055100
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How do museums confront the violence of European colonialism, conquest, dispossession, enslavement, and genocide?

The Art of Being a World Culture Museum

The Art of Being a World Culture Museum
Author: Barbara Plankensteiner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2018-09-25
Genre: Archaeological museums and collections
ISBN: 9783735605122
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World Cultures and Ethnographic Museums are the museums of our time in Europe. They are in the spotlight in a changing society, confronted with public discourse about the legacies of colonialism and the challenges to live together in a society shaped by migration and globalization.The Art of Being a World Culture Museum sketches the variety and practices of these museums by giving a lively insight into the exhibition ambiances, working conditions and practices, the collections and the museum architecture.'We want a variety of stories, we want new questions, and we want questions that are provocative and make people think [...] Collections have values and purposes today that supersede the reasons for, and contexts of, their formation.' -- Nicholas Thomas (Director, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Cambridge)The book contains excerpts of interviews with museum directors and beautiful photographs capturing the sites, displays, work environments and dynamics of 10 ethnography museums.The museums in focus include: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge (England), National Museums of World Culture, Stockholm/Gothenberg (Sweden), and Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna (Austria).Published in the frame of SWICH - Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage. Ethnography, Museums World Culture and New Citizenship in Europe.

Making Europe Visible

Making Europe Visible
Author: Anna-Lena Fuhrmann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre:
ISBN:
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Views of Violence

Views of Violence
Author: Jörg Echternkamp
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2019-01-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1789201276
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Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. Within Europe, one of the key sites for such representation has been the vast array of museums and memorials that reflect contemporary ideas of war, the roles of soldiers and civilians, and the self-perception of those who remember. This volume takes a historical perspective on museums covering the Second World War and explores how these institutions came to define political contexts and cultures of public memory in Germany, across Europe, and throughout the world.

The Witness as Object

The Witness as Object
Author: Steffi de Jong
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2018-01-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1785336436
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Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a “museum objectâ€_x009d_ in the form of video interviews with individuals remembering events of historical importance. Such video testimonies now not only are part of the collections and research activities of museums, but become deeply intertwined with narrative and exhibit design. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes for the first time this new global process of “musealisationâ€_x009d_ of testimony, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of the transformation of video testimonies into exhibits.

The Enemy on Display

The Enemy on Display
Author: Zuzanna Bogumił
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2015-06-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1782382186
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Eastern European museums represent traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the Bombardment of Dresden, in ways that depict the enemy in particular ways. This image results from the interweaving of historical representations, cultural stereotypes and beliefs, political discourses, and the dynamics of exhibition narratives. This book presents a useful methodology for examining museum images and provides a critical analysis of the role historical museums play in the contemporary world. As the catastrophes of World War II still exert an enormous influence on the national identities of Russians, Poles, and Germans, museum exhibits can thus play an important role in this process.

(Re)visualizing National History

(Re)visualizing National History
Author: Robin Ostow
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0802092217
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The role of the museum is a contentious one. The last fifteen years have seen scholars point to ways in which states – particularly imperial states – use museums as sites to showcase looted treasure, to document their geographic expansion, to present the state as the guardian of the national treasure, and to educate citizens and subjects. This period has also seen a great deal of attention paid to the reshaping of national histories and values in the wake of the collapse of the Communist bloc and the emergence of the European Union. (Re)Visualizing National History brings these two streams of scholarship together, treating the wave of monument and museum building in Europe as part of an attempt to forge consensus in politically unified, but deeply divided nations. The essays in this collection explore the ways in which museums exhibit new national values, and, equally important, how the realization of these new museums (and new exhibits in older museums) reflects the search for a new consensus among different generational groups in Europe and in North America. The approach of the volume is deliberately interdisciplinary. The contributors come from a variety of countries in Europe and North America, speaking from the perspectives of cultural studies, history, art history, anthropology, and sociology, as well as museum studies.

Matters of Belonging

Matters of Belonging
Author: Wayne Modest
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Belonging (Social psychology)
ISBN: 9789088907784
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This publication examines creative and collaborative practices within ethnographic and world cultures museums across Europe as part of their responses to ongoing public and scholarly critique.