| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction : challenging history in the museum / Jenny Kidd -- The emotional museum : the case of National Museums Liverpool / David Fleming -- Telling hard truths and the process of decolonising Indigenous representations in Canadian museums / Bryony Onciul -- Ripples in the pebble pool : dark narrative as maxim, metaphor and memorial / Alix Powers-Jones -- Making them laugh, making them cry : theatre's role in challenging history / Judith Bryan -- The Stiftelsen Arkivet experience : a Second World War Gestapo regional headquarters in Norway / Bjørn Tore Rosendahl and Ingvild Ruhaven -- Challenging ourselves : uncomfortable histories and current museum practices / Bernadette Lynch -- Contemporary challenges : artist interventions in museums and galleries dealing with challenging histories / Miranda Stearn -- Coffee and cigarettes : on trust-building processes between the Norwegian government and the Romani traveller community / Åshild Andrea Brekke -- Fieldnotes from a challenging history / David Gunn and Victoria Ward -- Vicissitudes of representation : remembering and forgetting / Juliet Steyn -- Realms of memory and the recovery of the historical memory of the Spanish Civil War and Franco's dictatorship (1936-2012) / Mikel Errazkin Agirrezabala and Rosa Martínez Rodríguez -- Unseen women, stories from Armagh Gaol : exhibiting contrasting memories of a contested space / Jolene Mairs Dyer -- Borders of belonging : the UK Border Agency Museum as a nation-building site / Claire Sutherland -- Perspectives on the Far East : understanding war through veterans' eyes / Amy Ryall -- Controversies around the teaching of Brazilian "black history" / Verena Alberti -- "To kill a king" : interpreting the execution of a monarch / Amanda Shamoon -- Frames of meaning : young people, historical consciousness and challenging history at museums and historic sites / Ceri Jones -- Challenging histories, challenging memorialisation : the Holocaust / Judith Vandervelde |
| Summary |
Challenging History in the Museum explores work with difficult, contested and sensitive heritages in a range of museum contexts. It is based on the Challenging History project, which brings together a wide range of heritage professionals, practitioners and academics to explore heritage and museum learning programmes in relation to difficult and controversial subjects. The book draws on work from countries around the world including Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, England, Germany, Japan, Northern Ireland, Norway, Scotland, South Africa, Spain and USA and crosses a number of disciplines: Museum and H |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Historical museums -- Exhibitions -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Case studies
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Historical museums -- Environmental aspects -- Case studies
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Historical museums -- Social aspects -- Case studies
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Cultural heritage -- Protection -- Museums and keeping places -- Exhibition and display
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Cultural heritage -- Protection -- Museums and keeping places -- Conservation
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Religions -- Judaism
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History -- Theory and criticism -- Sources
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Race relations -- Violent -- Genocide
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Feuds and warfare
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Defence -- World War II
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Ethics -- History
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Sites -- Historical
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History -- Political
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HISTORY -- Study & Teaching.
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Historical museums -- Social aspects
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United Kingdom -- Great Britain (Great Britain)
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Spain
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Norway
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Canada
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United States (USA)
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Cambodia
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kidd, Jenny, editor
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| ISBN |
9781409467250 |
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1409467252 |
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9781317168829 |
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1317168828 |
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9781315571171 |
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131557117X |
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