Challenging history in the museum : international perspectives / edited by Jenny Kidd, Sam Cairns, Alex Drago, Amy Ryall, Miranda Stearn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kidd, Jenny.

Contributor:

Kidd, Jenny, editor.

Cairns, Samantha, editor.

Drago, Alex, editor.

Ryall, Amy, editor.

Stearn, Miranda, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical museums--Educational aspects--Case studies.

Historical museums.

Historical museums--Exhibitions--Moral and ethical aspects--Case studies.

Historical museums--Social aspects--Case studies.

Museums--Educational aspects.

Museums.

Historical museums--Social aspects.

Exhibitions.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Production:

©2014.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England Burlington, VT Ashgate, [2014]

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1409467244

9781409467243

OCLC:

873566919

Publisher Number:

60001884642