Does War Belong in Museums?

Presentations of war and violence in museums generally oscillate between the fascination of terror and its instruments and the didactic urge to explain violence and, by analysing it, make it easier to handle and prevent. The museums concerned also have to face up to these basic issues about the so...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-343372025-07-31T03:11:04Z Does War Belong in Museums? Muchitsch, Wolfgang History Museum War Conflict Exhibition Violence Cultural History Museology Memory Culture World War II thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies Presentations of war and violence in museums generally oscillate between the fascination of terror and its instruments and the didactic urge to explain violence and, by analysing it, make it easier to handle and prevent. The museums concerned also have to face up to these basic issues about the social and institutional handling of war and violence. Does war really belong in museums? And if it does, what objectives and means are involved? Can museums avoid trivializing and aestheticising war, transforming violence, injury, death and trauma into tourist sights? What images of shock or identification does one generate – and what images would be desirable? 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2017-03-01 23:55:55 2020-03-17 03:00:31 2020-04-01T13:36:25Z 2013-02-15 book 627777 OCN: 903974155 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31469 9783839423066 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34337 eng Edition Museumsakademie Joanneum open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31469/1/627777.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31469/1/627777.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31469/1/627777.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31469/1/627777.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31469/1/627777.pdf transcript Verlag 10.14361/transcript.9783839423066 10.14361/transcript.9783839423066 7e97f9b9-be2b-4d9c-a928-3c8ebdfa443c Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783839423066 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection Bielefeld, Germany 100517 KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection open access
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Museum
War
Conflict
Exhibition
Violence
Cultural History
Museology
Memory Culture
World War II
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Does War Belong in Museums?
title Does War Belong in Museums?
title_full Does War Belong in Museums?
title_fullStr Does War Belong in Museums?
title_full_unstemmed Does War Belong in Museums?
title_short Does War Belong in Museums?
title_sort does war belong in museums
topic History
Museum
War
Conflict
Exhibition
Violence
Cultural History
Museology
Memory Culture
World War II
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies
topic_facet History
Museum
War
Conflict
Exhibition
Violence
Cultural History
Museology
Memory Culture
World War II
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies
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