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Author Rotem, Stephanie Shosh

Title Constructing Memory : Architectural Narratives of Holocaust Museums / Stephanie Shosh Rotem
Edition 1 [edition]
Published Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (217 pages)
Summary This book reveals the critical role of architecture in the assimilation of the ideologies and values conveyed at Holocaust museums around the world. Through the architectural analysis of sixteen museums, social, cultural and political agendas will be unfolded. While the distance in time and place raises the need to create innovative forms of display to reach an audience removed from the Holocaust, the degree to which this can be done by the museums' exhibits alone is limited
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Museum architecture.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Museums
Architecture and society.
museums (buildings)
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Public, Commercial & Industrial.
Architecture and society
Museum architecture
Museums
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783035105575
303510557X