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oapen-20.500.12657-314692021-11-08T09:21:17Z Does War Belong in Museums? Muchitsch, Wolfgang History Museum War Conflict Exhibition Violence Cultural History Museology Memory Culture World War II bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GM Museology & 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? 2017-03-01 23:55:55 2020-03-17 03:00:31 2020-04-01T13:36:25Z 2020-04-01T13:36:25Z 2013-02-15 book 627777 OCN: 903974155 9783839423066 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31469 eng Edition Museumsakademie Joanneum application/pdf n/a 627777.pdf transcript Verlag 10.14361/transcript.9783839423066 100517 10.14361/transcript.9783839423066 b30a6210-768f-42e6-bb84-0e6306590b5c b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783839423066 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Bielefeld, Germany 100517 KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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?
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