Museums, Narratives, and Critical Histories : Narrating the Past for the Present and Future.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barndt, Kerstin.

Contributor:

Jaeger, Stephan.

Series:

Museums and Narrative Series

Museums and Narrative Series ; v.1

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024.

Summary:

In response to systemic racism and institutions’ implications in histories of colonialism, nationalism, and exclusion, museum curators have embraced new ways of storytelling to face entangled memories and histories. Critical museum practices have consciously sought to unsettle established forms of representation, break with linear narratives of progress, and experiment with new modes of multivocal, multimedia, and subjective storytelling. The volume features analyses of narratives and narration in museums and heritage institutions today, as well as visions for future museum practices on a local, regional, national, transnational, and global scale. It is divided into three sections: Narrative Theory and Temporality, Ruptures and Repair, and Difficult Memories and Histories. Essays from a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences examine museum practices in history, memorial, anthropological, and art museums across six continents. They develop narratological categories, reflect on immersive and virtual narratives, challenge colonial violence and hegemonic forms of representation, query the performance of heritage, parse exhibition design, and unearth techniques to express narratives of social justice.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Museums, Narratives, and Critical Histories

Part I: Narrative Theory and Temporality

"Feeling Truth": Objects, Embodiment, and Temporality in the National Museum of African American History and Culture (Washington, DC) and the Legacy Museum (Montgomery, Alabama)

Reading Museum Narratives: A Narratological Approach to the Holocaust Exhibitions at the Jewish Museum Trondheim and the Oslo Jewish Museum

The Telling of Many Stories: Multivocality and Pluritemporality in Berlin Global at the Humboldt Forum

Museum Objects as Clues in Fictional Detective Stories: Story-led Art Exhibitions Helsinki Noir - A Crime to Solve and Before the Night - Tornio Noir as Case Studies

Narrating Grief: The Storytelling Strategy and its Immersive Potential in Pia Says Goodbye (Dortmund)

Sounds, Narrative, and Emotions in Historical Exhibitions: The Case of the Museum of the Slovak National Uprising in Banská Bystrica

Part II: Ruptures and Repair

Acts of Rupture and Repair: Staging Post-Critical Re-Readings of Colonial Histories in V&amp

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A Dundee through Contemporary Art

Beyond the De-Colonial: Rethinking the Future of Museums in Africa

Baring our Teeth: Narratives of Colonial Conflict at the Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

The Art of Decolonizing the Museum: Implementing Sámi Ontology and Storytelling at the Sámi Museum in Karasjok through Sámi Artwork

Revisiting Grand Narratives at the National Museum of Colombia: Striving for Inclusion and Diversity

Celebrating Bad Times: The Epideictic Work of Museums of Racial Trauma

Part III: Difficult Memories and Histories

Narrative Spaces of Conflict and Social Repair: The Conflictorium and Museum of Conflict (Ahmedabad).

Clandestine Captivity, Testimony, and Construction of Truth in a Memory Site: Narrative Strategies and Memory Work at the ESMA Site Museum's Permanent Exhibition (Buenos Aires)

Finding Meaning in Tragedy: A Critical Reflection of Audience Engagement at the Salem Witch Museum

"Use Me, When Needed Again": Performing Heritage at Monuments of the Yugoslav Era

Uncementing Narratives: Memorial Architecture as a Way to Support Intergenerational Remembrance and Contest Dominant Memory Politics in Sarajevo

Narrative and Resilience: Museum Exhibitions under Forced Change - A Case Study of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

3-11-078744-X