Does War Belong in Museums?
The Representation of Violence in Exhibitions
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?
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Editorial
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Content
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Does War Belong in Museums? The Representation of Violence in Exhibitions
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Introduction
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DOES WAR BELONG IN MUSEUMS?
Museums and the Representation of War
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IF WAR DOES BELONG IN MUSEUMS: HOW?
Military Museums and Social History
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DISPLAYING WAR
Contents and Space: New Concept and New Building of the Militärhistorisches Museum of the Bundeswehr
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From Technical Showroom to Full-fledged Museum: The German Tank Museum Munster
Seiten 83 - 98 -
The Museum of Military History/Institute of Military History in Vienna: History, Organisation and Significance
Seiten 99 - 104 -
THE BEAUTY OF WAR AND THE ATTRACTIVITY OF VIOLENCE
The Concept for a New Permanent Exhibition at the Museum Altes Zeughaus
Seiten 107 - 122 -
About the Beauty of War and the Attractivity of Violence
Seiten 123 - 130 -
The Bomb and the City: Presentations of War in German City Museums
Seiten 131 - 142 -
THE TRAUMA OF WAR AND THE LIMITS OF MEDIA
War in Context: Let the Artifacts Speak
Seiten 145 - 154 -
War Museums and Photography
Seiten 155 - 172 -
The Monument is Invisible, the Sign Visible. Monuments in New Perspectives
Seiten 173 - 182 -
MILITARY HISTORY, WAR MUSEUMS AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
Politics of Memory and History in the Museum - The New "Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War" in Minsk/Belarus
Seiten 185 - 202 -
Framing the Military-Nation: New War Museums and Changing Representational Practices in Turkey since 2002
Seiten 203 - 218 -
Contributors
Seiten 219 - 224
2014-04-27, 224 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8394-2306-6