Does War Belong in Museums? : The Representation of Violence in Exhibitions.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Muchitsch, Wolfgang.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : transcript, 2014.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Edition Museumsakademie Joanneum
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover Does War Belong in Museums?
  • Editorial
  • Content
  • Does War Belong in Museums? The Representation of Violence in Exhibitions
  • Introduction
  • DOES WAR BELONG IN MUSEUMS?
  • Museums and the Representation of War
  • IF WAR DOES BELONG IN MUSEUMS: HOW?
  • Military Museums and Social History
  • DISPLAYING WAR
  • Contents and Space: New Concept and New Building of the Militàˆrhistorisches Museum of the Bundeswehr
  • From Technical Showroom to Full-fledged Museum: The German Tank Museum Munster
  • The Museum of Military History/Institute of Military History in Vienna: History, Organisation and Significance
  • THE BEAUTY OF WAR AND THE ATTRACTIVITY OF VIOLENCE
  • The Concept for a New Permanent Exhibition at the Museum Altes Zeughaus
  • About the Beauty of War and the Attractivity of Violence
  • The Bomb and the City: Presentations of War in German City Museums
  • THE TRAUMA OF WAR AND THE LIMITS OF MEDIA
  • War in Context: Let the Artifacts Speak
  • War Museums and Photography
  • The Monument is Invisible, the Sign Visible. Monuments in New Perspectives
  • MILITARY HISTORY, WAR MUSEUMS AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
  • Politics of Memory and History in the Museum - The New "Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War" in Minsk/Belarus
  • Framing the Military-Nation: New War Museums and Changing Representational Practices in Turkey since 2002
  • Contributors.