Museum Times : : Changing Histories in South Africa / / Leslie Witz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Witz, Leslie,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Museums and Collections ; 16
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)

Museums flourished in post-apartheid South Africa. In older museums, there were renovations on the go, and at least fifty new museums opened. Most sought to depict violence and suffering under apartheid and the growth of resistance. These unlikely journeys are tracked as museums became a primary setting for contesting histories. From the renowned Robben Island Museum to the almost unknown Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum, the author demonstrates how an institution concerned with the conservation of the past is simultaneously a site for changing history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface. Guides to Museum Times -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction. Changing Museums, Reshaping Histories -- Chapter 1. Remaking the Chameleon: A History of History in South African Museums -- Chapter 2. History on the Beach: Making a Museum Home in Lwandle -- Chapter 3. History at Sea: Remaking a Museum of Eventless History -- Chapter 4. A New Hippo for a New Nation: The Journey of a Museum ‘Across the Frontier’ in Post-Apartheid South Africa -- Chapter 5. The Museum, the Rabbit and National History: The Voice of Robben Island -- Chapter 6. ‘We Are Sick of Van Riebeeck, Van Riebeeck. We Want to Know Our History’: Y350? and the Remaking of Settler Histories in Post-Apartheid Times -- Conclusion. Museums Closing and Opening -- Bibliography -- Index