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Does War Belong in Museums?

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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 and, by analysing it, make it easier...
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  • 27 February 2013
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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 and, by analysing it, make it easier to handle and prevent. The museums concerned also have to face up to these basic issues about the social and institutional handling of war and violence. Does war really belong in museums? And if it does, what objectives and means are involved? Can museums avoid trivializing and aestheticising war, transforming violence, injury, death and trauma into tourist sights? What images of shock or identification does one generate - and what images would be desirable?
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Pages: 224
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Edition Museumsakademie Joanneum
Publication Date: 27 February 2013
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837623062
Format: Paperback
BISACs: ART / Museum Studies, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
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Wolfgang Muchitsch studied History and English in Graz and Oxford. After graduation, he worked as a university lecturer and project leader in Britain, Northern Ireland and Austria. From 1992 to 1995 he worked for the Department for Planning and Organisation Development of the University of Graz. From 1995 onwards he was responsible for art management in the office of the First Deputy Governor of Styria. He has been the scientific manager of the Universalmuseum Joanneum GmbH since January 2003.

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Editorial 2
Content 5
Does War Belong in Museums? The Representation of Violence in Exhibitions 9
Introduction 13
Museums and the Representation of War 21
Military Museums and Social History 41
Contents and Space: New Concept and New Building of the Militärhistorisches Museum of the Bundeswehr 63
From Technical Showroom to Full-fledged Museum: The German Tank Museum Munster 83
The Museum of Military History/Institute of Military History in Vienna: History, Organisation and Significance 99
The Concept for a New Permanent Exhibition at the Museum Altes Zeughaus 107
About the Beauty of War and the Attractivity of Violence 123
The Bomb and the City: Presentations of War in German City Museums 131
War in Context: Let the Artifacts Speak 145
War Museums and Photography 155
The Monument is Invisible, the Sign Visible. Monuments in New Perspectives 173
Politics of Memory and History in the Museum - The New "Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War" in Minsk/Belarus 185
Framing the Military-Nation: New War Museums and Changing Representational Practices in Turkey since 2002 203
Contributors 219