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TitleThe Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century museum: from narrative, memory, and experience to experientiality

Author

Stephan Jaeger

Call number907.5/0003

Object number10590

Place of publicationBerlin, Germany

PublisherDe Gruyter

Year of publication

2020

Physical description354p.,index,bibliography

MaterialBook

Series titleMedia and cultural memory

ISBN9783110661064

NotesEducation

Description

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 Gdansk, 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. Chapter 7 'The Holocaust and perpetration in war museums'

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