Museums and truth / edited by Annette B. Fromm, Per B. Rekdal and Viv Golding.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museums--Philosophy.

Museums.

Truth.

Physical Description:

xxv, 221 pages

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Summary:

Though the essays in this collection are not written with museums and truth as their explicit subject, they highlight contested truths, the absence of the truth of the underprivileged, whether one truth is more worthy than the other, and whether lesser truths can dilute the value of greater truths. One of the articles included here lets youngsters choose which truth is most probable or just, while another talks about an exhibition where the public must choose which truth to adhere to before entering. One shows how a political change gives a new opportunity to finally restore valuable truths of the past to the present, and another describes the highly dangerous task of making museums and memorials for the truths of the oppressed. Lastly, one explores whether we live in a period where the sources for authorized truths are fragmented and questioned, and asks, what should the consequences for museums be? Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Truths, Faiths and Realities

Chapter 1 Museums and Truths: The Elephant in the Room / Viv Golding Golding, Viv 3

Part 2 Museums and 'Difficult' Heritage

Chapter 2 Peace is Never Neutral / Per B. Rekdal Rekdal, Per B. 23

Chapter 3 Concepts of Remembrance and Commemoration / Bäerbel Kerkhoff Hader Hader, Bäerbel Kerkhoff 31

Chapter 4 Proposing a Museum of Memory: Reparations and the Maya Achí Genocide in Guatemala / Heidi McKinnon McKinnon, Heidi 51

Chapter 5 Towards which Reconciliation? Musealogical Approaches in the Istrian Region / Mario Buletic Buletic, Mario 87

Chapter 6 Black Holes of Memory: Defining a Norwegian Museum of Human Rights / Leiv Sem Sem, Leiv 101

Part 3 Coping with Old Realities in New Settings

Chapter 7 Framing Religious World Views in Museum Presentations / Anette Rein Rein, Anette 125

Chapter 8 Murder and Manslaughter: An Exhibition about Life / Marie-Paul Jungblut Jungblut, Marie-Paul, Simon Schweizer Schweizer, Simon 147

Chapter 9 Minda, the Girl in the Pharmacy: An Educational Program on Sexual Assault / Ann Siri Hegseth Garberg Garberg, Ann Siri Hegseth 155

Part 4 Emerging Postnormality in Museums?

Chapter 10 Challenging Normality: Museums In/As Public Space / Klas Grinell Grinell, Klas 169.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

1443854492

9781443854498

OCLC:

870256984

Publisher Number:

99957256062