Exhibiting Atrocity Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence

Through a global comparative approach, Amy Sodaro uses in-depth case studies of five exemplary memorial museums that commemorate a range of violent pasts and allow for a chronological and global examination of the form: the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC; the House of Terror in Budap...

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Main Author Sodaro, Amy
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published New Brunswick Rutgers University Press 2018
Edition1
Subjects
Anthropology
Art & Art History
Chile
Collective memory
Crimes against humanity
Cultural & Social
cultural studies
Genocide
History
House of Terror
human rights
Hungary
identity
Kigali
Library and information sciences / Museology
memory
Museology and heritage studies
Museum Studies
museums
Political atrocities
Political atrocities-Exhibitions
Political Science
Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
Rwanda
Social Science
Sociology
The arts. Fine and decorative arts
The Holocaust
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
violence
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Summary:Through a global comparative approach, Amy Sodaro uses in-depth case studies of five exemplary memorial museums that commemorate a range of violent pasts and allow for a chronological and global examination of the form: the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC; the House of Terror in Budapest; the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda; the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile; and the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York. Together, these case studies illustrate the historical emergence and global spread of the memorial museum and show how this new cultural form of commemoration is intended to be used in contemporary societies around the world emerging from widely divergent forms of political violence.
Bibliography:Relevant Wikipedia pages: Chile - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile; Genocide - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide; House of Terror - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Terror; Human rights - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights; Hungary - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary; Kigali - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kigali; Rwanda - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda; The Holocaust - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Holocaust_Memorial_Museum
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ISBN:9780813592176
0813592178
0813592143
9780813592145
DOI:10.2307/j.ctt1v2xskk