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The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum
Stephan Jaeger
2020
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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 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 Gdańsk, 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. This includes a discussion of representations of events such as the Holocaust and air warfare. In relation to narrative, memory, and experience, the study develops the concept of experientiality (on a sliding scale between mimetic and structural forms), which provides a new textual-spatial method for reading exhibitions and understanding the experiences of historical individuals and collectives. It is supplemented by concepts like transnational memory, empathy, and encouraging critical thinking through difficult knowledge.
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Keywords
- Cognition & cognitive psychology
- History
- Holocaust Representation
- Humanities
- Literary studies: general
- Literature & literary studies
- Literature: history & criticism
- Media Studies
- Memory
- Military History
- Museology & heritage studies
- Psychology
- Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects
- Second World War
- Second World War Memory
- Second World War Museum
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general
- thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMR Cognition and cognitive psychology
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military history::NHWL Modern warfare
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military history::NHWR Specific wars and campaigns::NHWR7 Second World War
- Transnational Memory
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DOI: 10.1515/9783110664416Editions