TY  - BOOK
ED  - Muchitsch, Wolfgang
AB  - Presentations of war and violence in museums generally oscillate between the fascination of terror and its instruments and the didactic urge  to explain violence and, by analysing it, make it easier to handle and prevent. The museums concerned also have to face up to these basic issues  about the social and institutional handling of war and violence. Does war really belong in museums? And if it does, what objectives and means are involved? Can museums avoid trivializing and aestheticising war, transforming violence, injury, death and trauma into tourist sights? What images of shock or identification does one generate – and what images would be desirable?
DO  - 10.14361/transcript.9783839423066
ID  - OAPEN ID: 627777
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 903974155
KW  - History
KW  - Museum
KW  - War
KW  - Conflict
KW  - Exhibition
KW  - Violence
KW  - Cultural History
KW  - Museology
KW  - Memory Culture
KW  - World War II
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/424f9530-45e9-4d20-889a-c14a6c76c22c/627777.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31469
PB  - transcript Verlag
PP  - Bielefeld, Germany
PY  - 2013-02-15
SN  - 9783839423066
TI  - Does War Belong in Museums? : The Representation of Violence in Exhibitions
ER  - 
