The power of the object : museums and World War II / Power of the object : Museums and World War 2 Museums and World War II edited by Esben Kjeldbæk. - 423 pages ; 20 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 400-420).

Introduction -- What is the power of the object? / Esben Kjeldbæk -- Interpreting the Second World War / James Taylor -- The European forum of contemporary conflict / Anne Godfroid -- The exhibition: between book and film / Hans Henrik Appel -- The Breendonk memorial / Patrick Nefors -- Challenges of a memorial / Henrik Skov Kristensen -- The Jersey war tunnels / Christopher Addy -- Showing rather than telling / Heiki Ahonen -- Exhibiting Secrecy / Oliver Benjamin Hemmerle -- Objects and the power of their stories / Marcel Wouters -- The dilemma of exhibiting heroism / Clemens Maier-Wolthausen -- Post-communist museums: terrorspaces and traumascapes / Lene Otto -- How museums speak / Esben Kjeldbæk -- About the authors -- References -- Also from MuseumEtc -- Colophon.

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World War, 1939-1945--Museums--Europe
Memorialization
Collective memory
War memorials
Holocaust memorials

D733.E85 / P69 2009

940.53074