Museum Transformations. Группа авторов

      

      Table of Contents

      1  Cover

      2  Title page

      3  Copyright

      4  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      5  EDITORS

      6  GENERAL EDITORS

      7  CONTRIBUTORS

      8  EDITORS’ PREFACE TO MUSEUM TRANSFORMATIONS AND THE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOKS OF MUSEUM STUDIES

      9  INTRODUCTION: MUSEUMS IN TRANSFORMATION: Dynamics of Democratization and Decolonization

      10  PART I: Difficult Histories 1 THE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL IN BERLIN AND ITS INFORMATION CENTER: Concepts, Controversies, Reactions After the Holocaust Becoming aware of the fate of individuals Dealing with the past in the former GDR Memory discourse after unification A decision of the German Bundestag The Degussa debate Politics behind Memory: Underlying tensions An underground location Historians at work The basic concept Designing the information center: Continuity or counterpoint? Contemplation versus information Religious reading or historical remembrance? The Room of Names The outcome Reactions A moving experience References Further Reading 2 GHOSTS OF FUTURE NATIONS, OR THE USES OF THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM PARADIGM IN INDIA Punjab Exile Tibet Conclusion: Ghosts of future nations Acknowledgments Notes References 3 THE INTERNATIONAL DIFFICULT HISTORIES BOOM, THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF HISTORY, AND THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA Refounding settler nations A national museum for Australia History wars The democratization of history Bells Falls Gorge and the Wiradjuri War exhibit Review and renewal Conclusion Acknowledgments References Further Reading 4 WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN? AND “WE WERE SO FAR AWAY …”: Exhibiting the Legacies of Residential Schools, Healing, and Reconciliation The truth, healing, and legacy landscape “We Were So Far Away …”: The Inuit experience of residential schools Conclusion Notes References 5 RECIRCULATING IMAGES OF THE “TERRORIST” IN POSTCOLONIAL MUSEUMS: The Case of the National Museum of Struggle in Nicosia, Cyprus Historical context Terrorists Torture and heroism Bringing pain into vision Death by hanging Notes References 6 REACTIVATING THE COLONIAL COLLECTION: Exhibition-Making as Creative Process at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam A history of transformation The creative process Communicating colonialism The Colonial Theater visited and revisited Conclusion Notes References Further Reading 7 “CONGO AS IT IS?”: Curatorial Reflections on Using Spatial