| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Making and unmaking the Cold War in museums / Holger Nehring, Samuel J.M.M. Alberti and Jessica Douthwaite -- Readiness for red alert : Engaging with the material culture of the Royal Observer Corps / Sarah Harper -- Anchoring museum objects in the Cold War : the hidden meanings of a Transatlantic telephone cable / Holger Nehring -- Beyond Janus-faced narratives : object lessons from the travelling-wave maser / Johannes-Geert Hagmann -- The Vulcan's voice : multiple meanings of a Cold War artefact / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti -- Cold War through the looking glass : espionage objects, authenticity and multiperspectivity / Jim Gledhill -- Bunkers revisited : co-producing memory, meaning and materiality in Danish Cold War museums / Rosanna Farbøl -- Creating a new Cold War museum : curatorial reflections / Ulla Egeskov & Bodil Frandsen -- A war that never was : locating, collecting, and exhibiting the experiences of British forces in Cold War West Germany / Peter Johnston -- There can't be any Berlin Wall left : oral history, 'domestic museums' and the search for a British Cold War / Grace Huxford -- Looking out from Point Alpha : entangled histories in a Cold War borderland / Adam R. Seipp -- Cold War time : contemporary military heritage in Sweden / Cecilia Åse, Mattias Frihammar, Fredrik Krohn Andersson and Maria Wendt Robinson -- How the U-2 became a museum object : local identities and museum collections at the Norwegian Aviation Museum in Bodø / Karl Kleve -- Competing for authenticity, nostalgia, and visitor revenue in Cold War Museums / Peter Robinson and Milka Ivanova -- What colour was the Cold War? / Jessica Douthwaite |
| Summary |
"Cold War Museology is the first volume to bring together interdisciplinary and international contributions from leading practitioners and academics specialising in Cold War museology. Bringing the most recent historiography of the Cold War into conversation with museological theory and practice, chapters within the volume analyse the current condition of Cold War museology. By unpicking some of the unique challenges facing museum specialists dealing with the Cold War, this book takes a lead in developing the collection, display and interpretation of this history. The chapters question what makes a Cold War object; address the complexity of Cold War time; face up to questions of Cold War race, gender and imperialism; and reveal how to materialise the Cold War imaginary in museums. Most importantly perhaps, the volume demonstrates that, a consideration of the interconnecting forces of global twentieth-century history enables experts to add important complexity and nuance to the narratives with which they work and improve visitor understandings through innovative interpretations. Cold War Museology will encourage readers towards a more nuanced, holistic and inclusive approach to Cold War materiality in museums. It will be of great interest to academics, museum professionals and students engaged in the study of museums, heritage and the Cold War, as well as those with an interest in archaeology, media, culture and memory"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Cold War -- Museums -- Europe
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Cold War -- Exhibitions
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Museum studies -- Europe
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Museums -- Philosophy
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Europe -- History -- 20th century -- Historiography
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Douthwaite, Jessica, editor.
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Nehring, Holger, 1974- editor.
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Alberti, Samuel J. M. M., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781032690414 |
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1032690410 |
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