The New Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museum London : Conception, Design, Interpretation.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jaeger, Stephan.

Series:

Museums and Narrative Series

Museums and Narrative Series ; v.3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Memorial books (Holocaust).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (446 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.

Summary:

In October 2021, Imperial War Museums (IWM) opened its new Holocaust Galleries in its London branch, replacing its first Holocaust Exhibition (from 2000) that had become a landmark in British Holocaust memory.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Contents

Abbreviations

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Between Curation and Scholarly Analysis - the Holocaust Galleries as a Case Study for Holocaust Representation in the Museum

Introduction

The Project Emerges

The First Visit

Touring with James Bulgin

Museums and Narrative

The Challenges for Holocaust Representation in Exhibitions and Museums

Structure of this Book

Objective and Readership

Bibliography

Part I: Conception &amp

Design

"Not a Book on the Wall": Conception and Design of the Holocaust Galleries

1 Introduction

2 Context

3 Narrative

4 Advisory Board

5 Contemporaneity

6 Designers

7 Research Visits

8 Text

9 Objects

10 Scenography

11 Fonts

12 The Process

13 The Spaces

13.1 The Opening Space

13.2 Jewish Life

13.3 Fighting for Power

13.4 A New Order

13.5 Growing Isolation

13.6 Seeking Sanctuary

13.7 War

13.8 Ghettos

13.9 Massacre

13.10 Policy

13.11 Annihilation

13.12 Killing Centres

13.13 Enslavement

13.14 Breakdown

13.15 Afterwards

13.16 Responsibility and Judgement

13.17 Living Without

14 Conclusion

15 Thanks

Conception, Design, Interpretation: The Holocaust Learning Programme at the Imperial War Museum London

Background

The Holocaust Exhibition and Learning Programme

Identifying the Aims of the New Holocaust Learning Programme

Outline of the Programme: Requirements

Outline of the Programme: Introduction Session

Outline of the Programme: Holocaust Learning Programme App

Format

Personal Stories

Learning Outcomes

Leader Narration

3D Objects

Ending

Outline of the Programme: Conclusion Session

Conclusion

Bibliography.

Experiences as Rabbinic Advisor to the Imperial War Museum when Creating the Holocaust Galleries

Opening Reflections

Advisory Role: Questions and Decisions

Advisory Role: Personal Impact

The Burial (1)

The Torah Scroll (2)

The Tefillin (Prayers Boxes) Bag (3)

The Millstone (4)

Final Thoughts

Opening a Door into History: Artefacts that Revealed my Family's Past and the Imperial War Museum

Some Examples of my Discoveries

How the Story Emerged after Ruth's Death

Donating to IWM: the Transition into Significance

Unanswered Questions and Grey Areas

Part II: Conversation

Narrating the Holocaust in the New Holocaust Galleries of the Imperial War Museum London: James Bulgin and Suzanne Bardgett in Conversation with Stephan Jaeger

1 Context

2 Conditions and Objectives to Design a Holocaust Exhibition

2.1 Museum Genre

2.2 The Second World War and Holocaust

2.3 Conditions to Design a Holocaust Exhibition

2.4 Audiences

3 Narrative Strategies and the British Perspective on the Holocaust

3.1 The First Holocaust Exhibition

3.2 The New Holocaust Galleries

3.3 Final Room in the New Holocaust Galleries

3.4 Interactive Design

3.5 Objects and Developing an Exhibition

4 Memory and the Contemporaneous

4.1 Memory and the Contemporaneous in the New Holocaust Galleries

4.2 First Holocaust Exhibition, Testimony, and Memory

4.3 The Auschwitz Model

4.4 Mediation

5 The Agency of the Persecuted

5.1 Agency of the Persecuted

5.2 Fragmented Stories and 'Totems'

5.3 Other Groups of the Persecuted

5.4 Testimony

6 Perpetrators and Perpetration

7 Space and Design

7.1 The Experiential

7.2 Lighting

7.3 Past and Present

7.4 'Unconscious' Design Effects upon Visitors?

7.5 Authenticity and Space

7.6 Authenticity and Objects

7.7 Photography.

7.8 Exhibition Pragmatics

8 Inspiration from Other Holocaust Museums, Sites, and Institutions

9 Visitor Emotion and Agency

10 Democracy and Education

10.1 Human Rights and Holocaust

10.2 Contemporary Politics

10.3 Education

10.4 Impact on Visitors

11 Future Holocaust Representation in Museums

Part III: Interpretation

A New Schema for Cultural Memory: The Holocaust Galleries

The Need for a New Approach: the Holocaust Exhibition and Holocaust Culture in the Mid-2010s

Toward a New Schema

Frames and Framing

Closing and Mediating Distance

History and Memory

Shifting Theatricalities in the Holocaust Galleries

Performed Memory and Difficult Knowledge

Affect in the History Museum

The New Holocaust Galleries in the Imperial War Museum

Holocaust Representation in the Museum in Experiential Structures: Between History and Meta-Reflexive Narrative Form

Capturing Holocaust Realities in the Museum

Proximity to Perpetrators

Everyday Perpetrator Society

Scenographic Experiential Realities

Representing Photos from Extermination Camps - a World-Wide Comparison

Auschwitz Photographs in the IWM Holocaust Galleries

Engaging Agency during Genocide: A Close Reading of the Sections "Massacre" and "Killing Centres" in the Holocaust Galleries

"Massacre" and "Killing Centres" - a Close Reading of Victim Agency

"Massacre"

"Killing Centres"

Visitor Engagement with the Holocaust Galleries

Introduction: Sensing Visitor Experience

Available Sources and Approach

Public Reception Insights

Highlighting Uniqueness - The British Press Coverage

Expressing Views on X.

A Diversity of Visitor Experience - Tripadvisor

Part of a Whole - Google Reviews

Visitor Experience: Highlights, Issues, Challenges, and Institutional Responses

"Telling Human Stories"

Omissions

Individual Narrative and/versus Scale?

What Stands Out, and What Does Not

A Sense of Overwhelm

Does Not Tell What to Think or Feel

A Place for Reflection

Online Visitor Reviews

"The Walls Are where They Are": An Infrastructural Approach to the Holocaust Galleries

Infrastructure and Exhibitions

The Infrastructure of the Holocaust Galleries

Extra-Exhibition Infrastructure

Intra-Exhibition Infrastructure

Holocaust Galleries as Mnemonic Infrastructure

Bibliography and Sources

Notes on Contributors

Index.

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ISBN:

3-11-149027-0

OCLC:

1534128038