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Peacetime: return to traditional collections concerns -- The past is intrinsic to museums -- The complexities of peacetime -- Appendix: primary sources -- Refer
The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum
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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 S
The Enemy on Display
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Authors: Zuzanna Bogumił
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Eastern European museums represent traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the Bombardment of Dresden, in wa
Views of Violence
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Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. Within Europe, one of t
Does War Belong in Museums?
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Authors: Wolfgang Muchitsch
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-30 - Publisher: transcript Verlag

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Presentations of war and violence in museums generally oscillate between the fascination of terror and its instruments and the didactic urge to explain violence