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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Memorial Museums"”.
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Memorial Museums: Politics, Spectacle and Interpretation
<p>Memorial museums that commemorate the turbulent events of the 20th century claim as their main objectives the remembrance of victims and prevention of future atrocities through truth, education and advocacy. Their narratives are, however, sometimes skewed by politics and other influences that …
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Making Memory, Making Meaning: Memorial Museums and the Participatory Audience
… dissertation explores the relationship between memorial museums and visitors, reexamining the process of remembering traumatic events in United States history. My work examines this meaning-making dynamic in case studies of four memorial museums: The 9/11 Memorial Museum, The Legacy Museum: From …
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Memorial Museums and Material Witnesses: Framing Objects as Witnesses to Trauma
… how objects are given narrative voices by memorial museum curators, and how these narrative qualities facilitate ethical and critical relations between museumgoers and traumatic histories. My two main points of contention arise out of these questions: 1. What does it mean for an object to …
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Cambodian Genocide Museums And Memorials: A Medium For Transmitting Intergenerational Cultural Memory
… States and Cambodia, examines the role of four memorial museums in promoting shared intergenerational cultural memory from the Cambodian genocide. I focus on four sites: the Cambodian American Heritage Museum and Killing Fields Memorial in Chicago, Illinois; Cambodian Cultural Museum and Killing …
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Hot Culture, Cold Halls: Narrating History and Healing at Sites of Trauma
<p>With the increased threat of geopolitical violence in the 21<sup>st</sup> century (bioterrorism, nuclear war, government upheaval, and the like), and at a time when most of the world’s citizens are desensitized to extreme forms of violence, it is necessary for museum professionals to undertake …