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The power of the object : museums and World War II / edited by Esben Kjeldbaek

Record no:

68843

Call no:

069.9355 POW

Author:

Kjeldbaek, Esben

Publisher:

Edinburgh: MuseumsEtc

Year:

2009

Description:

423 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Museums - Collections management;
Historic sites - Interpretive Programs;
Museums - Interpretive programs;
Military museums;
World War, 1939-1945 - Museums;

Isbn:

9780956194343

Type:

Book

Abstract:

Based on a conference held by the National Museum of Denmark, international museum professionals deal with the key issues affecting all history museums, using as the basis for their insights the interpretation by museums of World War II.

Contents:

Introduction -- What is the power of the object? / Esben Kjeldbæk -- Interpreting the Second World War / James Taylor -- The European forum of contemporary conflict / Anne Godfroid -- The exhibition: between book and film / Hans Henrik Appel -- The Breendonk

memorial / Patrick Nefors -- Challenges of a memorial / Henrik Skov Kristensen -- The Jersey war tunnels / Christopher Addy -- Showing rather than telling / Heiki Ahonen -- Exhibiting Secrecy / Oliver Benjamin Hemmerle -- Objects and the power of their stories / Marcel Wouters -- The dilemma of exhibiting heroism / Clemens Maier-Wolthausen -- Post-communist museums: terrorspaces and traumascapes / Lene Otto -- How museums speak / Esben Kjeldbæk.

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