The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum: From Narrative, Memory, and Experience to Experientiality

Description

The Second World War is omnipresent in contemporary memory debates. As the war fades from living memory, this study is the first to systematically analyze how Second World War museums allow prototypical visitors to comprehend and experience the past. It analyzes twelve permanent exhibitions in Europe and North America – including the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, the House of European History in Brussels, the Imperial War Museums in London and Manchester, and the National WWII Museum in New Orleans – in order to show how museums reflect and shape cultural memory, as well as their cognitive, ethical, emotional, and aesthetic potential and effects. This includes a discussion of representations of events such as the Holocaust and air warfare. In relation to narrative, memory, and experience, the study develops the concept of experientiality (on a sliding scale between mimetic and structural forms), which provides a new textual-spatial method for reading exhibitions and understanding the experiences of historical individuals and collectives. It is supplemented by concepts like transnational memory, empathy, and encouraging critical thinking through difficult knowledge.

Get the book

Amazon.com

Search the book

eBay.com

Search the book

Other editions

• 

  The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum: From Narrative,...

  • 2020-02-24
  • 368 pages
  • Ebook
  • Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• 

  The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum: From Narrative,...

  • 2022-01-31
  • - pages
  • Paperback
  • ISSN

Similar books

• 

  Views of Violence: Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials

  By Jörg Echternkamp, Stephan Jaeger

  This volume takes a historical perspective on museums covering the Second World War and explores how these institutions came to define political contexts and cultures of public memory in Germany, across Europe, and throughout the world.

• 

  Perpetration and Complicity under Nazism and Beyond: Compromised Identities?

  By Mary Fulbrook, Stefanie Rauch, Bastiaan Willems

  ... Memory and Repetition : Reenactment as an Affirmative Critical Practice , New German Critique 137 , no . 46.2 ( 2019 ) : 178 . 14 Ibid . , 179 . 15 Debarati Sanyal , Memory and Complicity : Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance ( New York ...

• 

  National History and New Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Comparison

  By Thomas Maissen, Niels F. May

  This is the Dutch version of his The Concise History of the Netherlands (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). ... 65 See for example Christopher L. Hill, National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, ...

• 

  Adventures in Time: The Second World War

  By Dominic Sandbrook

  Because in total war, no life is left untouched... The Adventures in Time series brings the past alive for twenty-first century children. These stories are every bit as exciting as those of Harry Potter or Matilda Wormwood.

• 

  The Women of the Arrow Cross Party: Invisible Hungarian Perpetrators in the Second World War

  By Andrea Pető

  This book analyses the actions, background, connections and the eventual trials of Hungarian female perpetrators in the Second World War through the concept of invisibility.

• 

  The Palgrave Handbook of Artistic and Cultural Responses to War since 1914: The British Isles, the United States and Australasia

  By Martin Kerby, Margaret Baguley, Janet McDonald

  See Brian Foss, War Paint: Art, War, State and Identity in Britain, 1939–1945 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007). ... “The Power and Impotence of Images,” in Memory of Fire: The War of Images and Images of War (Brighton: Brighton ...

• 

  The Museum: From Its Origins to the 21st Century

  By Owen Hopkins

  Right Aerial View of the Crown Building, formerly known as the Heckscher Building, which first housed MoMA, and the Vanderbilt Mansion, New York, c. 1921 Far right West 53rd Street façade of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, ...

• 

  Museums, Modernity and Conflict: Museums and Collections in and of War since the Nineteenth Century

  By Kate Hill

  Written by a mixture of museum professionals and academics and ranging across Europe, North America and the Middle East, this book examines the many ways in which museums were affected by major conflicts such as the World Wars, considers ...

• 

  Guide to U.S. Army Museums

  By R. Cody Phillips

  This Guide will lead military personnel, their families, and other students interested in the lessons of military history through the vast richness of exhibits and artifacts in the Army Museum...

• 

  Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I

  By Richard B. Frank

  In addition to Tim, I have particularly been aided in the reading room by Gibson “Sandy” Smith, Barry Zerby, Wil Mahoney, Nathanial Patch, Jacob Haywood, and Paul Cogan. In the still and motion picture branch, Sharon Culley and Holly ...