23 mars 2020
Pablo Markin, « Memorial Museums, Exhibition Practices and Collective Past », Open Culture, ID : 10670/1.mbmwoe
The book Exhibiting Atrocity by Amy Sodaro (2017) addresses the reasons for which societies attempt to come to terms with past atrocities and trauma through the creation of memorial museums, as a novel cultural form of commemoration. A Blog Post by Pablo Markin. Sodaro (2017) explores memorial museums as forms that express an ambiguous relationship to the violence of the past, despite their missions to strengthen the democratic values of freedom, tolerance, and human rights. As this author a...