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...
Museums of history and contemporary culture face many challenges in the modern age. One is how to react to processes of Europeanization and global...
By accompanying a range of senior high school history students before, during and after their visits to the museum, Visitors to the House of Memory is an intimate exploration of how young Berliners from across the city experience the Jewish Museum Berlin.
By accompanying a range of senior high school history students before, during and after their visits to the museum, Visitors to the House of Memory is...
Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a "museum object" in the form of video interviews. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes this new global phenomenon of the "musealisation" of testimony, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of video testimonies as exhibits.
Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a "museum object" in the form of video interviews. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this ...
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.
This book presents a useful methodology for examining museum images and provides a critical analysis of the role historical museums play in the contem...
From Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century.
From Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in ...
