Museums, memory and history

Cultural and Social History

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 415-427

  Black, Graham ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audiences; Cultural memory; Multiple perspectives; Museums

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051513354     PISSN: 14780038     EISSN: 14780046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2752/147800411X13026260433275     Document Type: Review

References (50)

1. Eric Gable and Richard Handler, 'Public History, Private Memory', in Amy K. Levin (ed.), Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities (Walnut Creek, CA, 2007), p. 60.
2. Michelle Henning, Museums, Media and Cultural Theory (Maidenhead, 2006), p. 137.
3. Sheila Watson, 'Myth, Memory and the Senses in the Churchill Museum', in Sandra H. Dudley (ed.), Museum Materialities: Objects, Engagements, Interpretation (Oxford, 2010), p. 205.
4. Tony Bennett, Pasts beyond Memory: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism (London, 2004), p. 2.
5. Tony Bennett, Pasts beyond Memory: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism (London, 2004), p. 4. For a detailed discussion of this.
6. Laura Otis, Organic Memory: History and the Body in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Lincoln, NB, 1994).
7. Bennett, Pasts beyond Memory, pp. 59-60.
8. Stephanie Moser, Wondrous Curiosities: Ancient Egypt at the British Museum (Chicago, IL, 2006), p. 5.
9. Jules David Prown, 'The Truth of Material Culture: History or Fiction?', in Steven Lubar and W. David Kingery (eds), History from Things: Essays on Material Culture (Washington, DC, 1993), pp. 2-3.
10. Jan Assman, Religion and Cultural Memory (Stanford, CA, 2006), p. 24.
11. Susan A. Crane, 'Introduction', in Susan A. Crane (ed.), Museums and Memory (Stanford, CA, 2000), p. 3.
12. Susan A. Crane, 'Introduction', in Susan A. Crane (ed.), Museums and Memory (Stanford, CA, 2000), p. 2.
13. Marius Kwint, 'Introduction: The Physical Past', in Marius Kwint, Christopher Breward and Jeremy Aynsley (eds), Material Memories (London, 1999), p. 5.
14. Gaynor Kavanagh, Dream Spaces: Memory and the Museum (Leicester, 2000), p. 3.
15. Alberto Gallace and Charles Spence, 'A Memory for Touch: The Cognitive Psychology of Tactile Memory', in Helen J. Chatterjee (ed.), Touch in Museums: Policy and Practice in Object Handling (Oxford, 2008), ch. 11, pp. 163-186.
16. Bernie Arigho, 'Getting a Handle on the Past: The Use of Objects in Reminiscence Work', in Chatterjee (ed.), Touch in Museums, ch. 14, p. 205.
17. Prown, 'The Truth of Material Culture', p. 1.
18. Geoffrey Cubitt, History and Memory (Manchester, 2007), p. 179.
19. Meredith Blake, 'Navigating Our Pacific Heritage: Museums Preserving Traditions, Mediating Development and Building Local, Regional and International Relationships', Paper presented at Intercom Conference 'New Roles and Missions for Museums', Taipei, Taiwan, 2-4 November 2006, available at www.intercom.museum/documents/4-4Blake.pdf (accessed 10 May 2011).
20. Assman, Religion and Cultural Memory, pp. 82-83.
21. John E. Crowley, The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America (Baltimore, MD, 2000).
22. Kay F. Edge and Frank H. Weiner, 'Collective Memory and the Museum', in Ian Russell (ed.), Images, Representations and Heritage: Moving beyond Modern Approaches to Archaeology (New York, 2006), p. 227.
23. Theodor W. Adorno (trans. Samuel Weber), Prisms (Cambridge, MA, 1982).
24. Pierre Nora, 'Between Memory and History: les lieux de mémoire', Representations, 26 (1989), pp. 7-25.
25. Pierre Nora, 'Between Memory and History: les lieux de mémoire', Representations, 26 (1989), p. 7.
26. Tony Bennett, 'Stored Virtue: Memory, the Body and the Evolutionary Museum', in Susannah Radstone and Katharine Hodgkin (eds), Regimes of Memory (London, 2003), pp. 40-54.
27. For an introduction to ecomuseums.
28. Peter Davis, 'New Museologies and the Ecomuseum', in Brian Graham and Peter Howard (eds), The Ashgate Research Companion to Heritage and Identity (Aldershot, 2008), pp. 397-414.
29. Henning, Museums, Media and Cultural Theory, p. 119.
30. Taken from the website of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, www.sitesofconscience.org (accessed 10 May 2011).
31. Liz Ševčenko (author), Liam Mahony (ed.), The Power of Place: How Historic Sites Can Engage Citizens in Human Rights Issues (Minneapolis, Centre for Victims of Torture, 2004), p. 6, available at www.sitesofconscience.org/wp-content/documents/publications/powerof-place-en.pdf (accessed 10 May 2011).
32. Susan A. Crane, 'Writing the Individual back into Collective Memory', AHR Forum 'History and Memory', American Historical Review, 103(5) (December 1997), pp. 1372-1385, 1373.
33. Patricia Davison, 'Museums and the Re-shaping of Memory', in Gerard Corsane (ed.), Heritage, Museums and Galleries: An Introductory Reader (London, 2005), pp. 184-194, 186.
34. David W. Blight, 'The Memory Boom: Why and Why Now?', in Pascal Boyer and James V. Wertsch (eds), Memory in Mind and Culture (Cambridge, 2009), pp. 238-251.
35. Cheryl Mezaros, 'Un/Familiar', Journal of Museum Education, 33(3) (2008), pp. 239-246, 243.
36. Davison, 'Museums and the Re-shaping of Memory', p. 186.
37. Gaynor Kavanagh, Dream Spaces: Memory and the Museum (London, 2000), p. 99.
38. Gaynor Kavanagh, History Curatorship (Leicester, 1990) and 'The Future of Social History Collecting', Social History Curators Group, 20 (2004), pp. 61-65.
39. Kevin Moore, Museums and Popular Culture (Leicester, 1997).
40. David Fleming, 'Making City Histories', in Gaynor Kavanagh (ed.), Making Histories in Museums (Leicester, 1999), p. 134.
41. Stuart Davies, 'Collecting and Recalling the Twentieth Century', Museums Journal, 85(1) (1985), pp. 27-30.
42. Gaynor Kavanagh, Dream Spaces: Memory and the Museum, chapters 8 and 9.
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44. For a large-scale project, see www.movinghere.org.uk - a major initiative led by the National Archives and involving over thirty archives and museums and a multitude of community groups. It explores and records the life experiences of people who have come to England over the last 200 years and has involved collecting oral histories, images and objects. Over 200,000 items are available through the online catalogue.
45. Helen Denniston Associates, Holding up the Mirror: Addressing Cultural Diversity in London's Museums (London, 2003).
46. Val Bott, Alice Grant and Jon Newman, Revisiting Collections: Discovering New Meanings for a Diverse Audience (London, 2005).
47. Barbara Misztal, Theories of Social Remembering (Maidenhead, 2003), p. 20.
48. Crane, 'Writing the Individual', p. 1376.
49. Graham Black, 'Embedding Civil Engagement in Museums', Museum Management and Curatorship, 25(2) (June 2010), pp. 129-146.
50. Paul Connerton, How Societies Remember (Cambridge, 1989), p. 19.