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Digital Memory in the Post-Witness Era: How Holocaust Museums Use Social Media as New Memory Ecologies

open access: yesInformation, 2021
With the passing of the last testimonies, Holocaust remembrance and Holocaust education progressively rely on digital technologies to engage people in immersive, simulative, and even counterfactual memories of the Holocaust.
Stefania Manca
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Museum-Cemetery: (Infra)Structural Violence Against Human Remains

open access: yesÖsterreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2023
In this paper, I investigate Polish memorial sites and museums established at former Nazi extermination camps, defined by the presence of human remains of their Jewish victims, through a conceptual prism of museum-cemetery.
Zuzanna Dziuban
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The Holocaust Template – Memorial Museums in Hungary, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina

open access: yesAnali Hrvatskog Politološkog Društva, 2018
In this article, I discuss how memorial museums in Hungary, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina reference trends set by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem.
Ljiljana Radonić
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The new approach to commemorating open-air war sites on the example of the Museum of Westerplatte and the 1939 war in Gdańsk, Poland [PDF]

open access: yesMuzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo, 2023
This paper focuses on current issues in the development of open-air memorial sites. The concept of open-air museums is evolving in the twenty-first century to encompass sustainable protection of war monuments in their historical context.
Trojanowska, Monika
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East of the West: Repossessing the Past In India [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Public history, as it is practised in India, defies easy attempts at classification. This is partially because hardly anything that would be recognised as public history is identified as such by its author(s).
Chowdhury, Indira, Mandal, Srijan
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National Identity, International Visitors: Narration and Translation of the Taipei 228 Memorial Museum

open access: yesMuseum & Society, 2017
Although many museums nowadays provide multilingual services, translations in museums have not received enough attention from researchers. The issue of how ideology is embedded in museum texts is translated is particularly underresearched.
Chia-Li Chen, Min-Hsiu Liao
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Situating Tsitsernakaberd: The Armenian Genocide Museum in a Global Context

open access: yesInternational Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, 2014
This article sets the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, and the Tsitsernakaberd memorial complex, into the global context of genocide memorial museums.
Rebecca Jinks
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Museum Theatre as an Educational Tool: Examples in Serbian Museums

open access: yesRevija za Elementarno Izobraževanje, 2022
The paper presents museum theatre as an interpretive tool, its theoretical framework, developmental origins, the use of drama in museums in the 20th and 21st centuries, and its pedagogical outcomes.
Dragan Kiurski
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Museums as Spaces Carrying Social Memory

open access: yesMSGSÜ Sosyal Bilimler, 2022
The memory of societies has always been built over space and transferred to the next generation. These spaces sometimes appear as monuments, squares, or museums. In addition to their traditional roles in preserving history and historical artifacts, museums have taken on new roles, such as the re-creation of social memory.
Mehmet TAYANÇ, Hasan YENİÇIRAK
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Practices of Remembrance: The Experiences of Artists and Curators in the Centenary Commemoration of World War I [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The centenary of World War One was marked in the UK by an unprecedented national investment in the creative arts as a vehicle for remembrance. This scale of funding for commemorative arts, not least under a government whose mantra had been economic ...
Baxter, Katherine
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