Articles tagged "Museum"
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Discussion for Goree Island
Many historians doubt that the Maison des Esclaves presents accurate history. “The whole story is phony,” says historian Philip D. Curtin, who insists that ...read »Design of Constitution Hill
After it was decided, in 1995, to move the Constitutional Court to the site of the Old Fort, a major international competition was held in 1998 to determine ...read »
Design of District Six Museum
Upon entry to the District Six Museum, a large, interactive map on the floor and a display of old street signs give visitors a palpable sense of what life ...read »
Discussion for District Six Museum
The District Six Museum is a living space that is “continually shifted, layered, and subverted by its visitors.” It focuses on the past destruction of a ...read »
Design of Oradour-sur-Glane
The victims of Oradour-sur-Glane are buried in a cemetery to the north of the village, where a tall column flanked by ossuaries memorializes the dead. Along ...read »
Design of Terror Háza
The Terror Háza museum was opened on February 24, 2002, after a year-long renovation process. The reconstruction aimed to make the building stand out ...read »
Discussion of Terror Háza
The museum has been both wildly popular and highly controversial. High-tech and slickly produced, the museum strikes some visitors as somewhat over-the-top, ...read »
Design of Halabja
The main building of the Halabja monument is a single-story, modern structure covered in white orbs. Its curved roof culminates in a 100-foot tower consisting ...read »
Design of Tuol Sleng
After taking control of Cambodia in 1979, the Vietnamese, seeking to legitimize their unpopular occupation, quickly capitalized upon Tuol Sleng’s propaganda ...read »
Discussion of Tuol Sleng
Tuol Sleng has been instrumental in the creation of a master narrative of the past that legitimizes Cambodia’s current ruling party and projects the aura of ...read »
Discussion for Villa Grimaldi
How important is it for memorials to preserve the physical remains of the events they commemorate? Within this question lies another: if it is beneficial to ...read »
Design of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and Museum
Peace Memorial Park was designed by Kenzo Tange, who won a design competition sponsored by the city of Hiroshima. Entrants were asked to develop a ...read »
Discussion of Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park
As is the case with most historical events, episodes of state violence and atrocity can be difficult to explain as single narratives. Causes and outcomes ...read »Tourism and Memory Sites
Tourism is typically associated with pleasure and fun, vacation and escape. What happens, then, when a memorial to mass atrocity becomes a tourist site? In ...read »News
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Resources
Seltz, Daniel “Remembering the War and the Atomic Bombs: New Museums, New Approaches.” Radical History Review 75 (Fall 1999): 92-108.
The museum’s official web site and the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience both have more information.
The World Movement of Democracy has an interview with the museum’s former director, Valmont Layne.
Karpk, Ivan Kratz, et al, Corinne Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006.
Layne, Valmont “The District Six Museum: An Ordinary People's Place.” Public Historian 30, no. 1 (February 2008): 53-62.
Layne, Valmont “The sound archive at the District Six Museum: A work in progress.” S. A. Archives Journal 40 (1998): 22.
McEachern, Charmaine “Mapping the memories: Politics, place and identity in the district six museum, Cape Town.” Social Identities 4, no. 3 (October 1998): 499.
Nanda, Serena “South African Museums and the Creation of a New Identity.” American Anthropologist 106, no. 2 (2004).
Rassool, Ciraj “Making the District Six Museum in Cape Town.” Museum International 58, no. 1/2 (May 2006) 9-18.
Rassool, CirajProsalendis, eds., Sandra Recalling Community in Cape Town: Creating and Curating the District Six Museum. Cape Town: District Six Foundation, 2001.
The official website for the Terror Haza Museum includes interactive elements and gives a good sense of the style and approach of the site.
Bickford, Louis “Transforming a Legacy of Genocide: Pedagogy and Tourism at the Killing Fields of Choeung Ek.” Memory, Memorials, and Museums (MMM) Program, International Center for Transitional Justice, February 2009.
Ledgerwood, Judy “The Cambodian Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes: National Narrative.” Museum Anthropology 21, no. 1 (1997): 82-98.
Hughes, Rachel “Nationalism and Memory at the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide Crimes, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.” In Contested Pasts: The Politics of Memory, edited by Katharine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone, 175-192. London: Routledge: 2003.
Ledgerwood, Judy “The Cambodian Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes: National Narrative.” Museum Anthropology 21, no. 1 (1997): 82-98.
Peters, Heather A. “Cambodian history through Cambodian museums.” Expedition 37, no. 3 (1995): 52.
Williams, Paul “Nationalism and Memory at the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide Crimes, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.” In Contested Pasts: The Politics of Memory, edited by Katharine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone, 175-92. London: Routledge, 2003.
