Does War Belong in Museums? : : The Representation of Violence in Exhibitions.

• Superior document: Edition Museumsakademie Joanneum ; v.4
• Author: Muchitsch, Wolfgang.
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript,, 2014.; ©2013.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Museumsakademie Joanneum
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (225 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover Does War Belong in Museums? -- Editorial -- Content -- Does War Belong in Museums? The Representation of Violence in Exhibitions -- Introduction -- DOES WAR BELONG IN MUSEUMS? -- Museums and the Representation of War -- IF WAR DOES BELONG IN MUSEUMS: HOW? -- Military Museums and Social History -- DISPLAYING WAR -- Contents and Space: New Concept and New Building of the Militärhistorisches Museum of the Bundeswehr -- From Technical Showroom to Full-fledged Museum: The German Tank Museum Munster -- The Museum of Military History/Institute of Military History in Vienna: History, Organisation and Significance -- THE BEAUTY OF WAR AND THE ATTRACTIVITY OF VIOLENCE -- The Concept for a New Permanent Exhibition at the Museum Altes Zeughaus -- About the Beauty of War and the Attractivity of Violence -- The Bomb and the City: Presentations of War in German City Museums -- THE TRAUMA OF WAR AND THE LIMITS OF MEDIA -- War in Context: Let the Artifacts Speak -- War Museums and Photography -- The Monument is Invisible, the Sign Visible. Monuments in New Perspectives -- MILITARY HISTORY, WAR MUSEUMS AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- Politics of Memory and History in the Museum - The New "Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War" in Minsk/Belarus -- Framing the Military-Nation: New War Museums and Changing Representational Practices in Turkey since 2002 -- Contributors.