Exhibiting Atrocity Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence

Exhibiting Atrocity Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence

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Through a global comparative approach, Amy Sodaro uses in-depth case studies of five exemplary memorial museums that commemorate a range of violent pasts and allow for a chronological and global examination of the form: the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC; the House of Terror in Budap...

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Main Author: Sodaro, Amy (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick Rutgers University Press 2017
Subjects:
Museology & heritage studies
Anthropology
museums
human rights
memory
cultural studies
identity
genocide
violence
Chile
House of Terror
Hungary
Kigali
Rwanda
The Holocaust
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Summary:Through a global comparative approach, Amy Sodaro uses in-depth case studies of five exemplary memorial museums that commemorate a range of violent pasts and allow for a chronological and global examination of the form: the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC; the House of Terror in Budapest; the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda; the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile; and the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York. Together, these case studies illustrate the historical emergence and global spread of the memorial museum and show how this new cultural form of commemoration is intended to be used in contemporary societies around the world emerging from widely divergent forms of political violence.
ISBN:j.ctt1v2xskk
9780813592176
Access:Open Access

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