The Benin Bronzes have given rise to what is probably the most prominent international discussion concerning looted art.
Tag Archive for ‘Museum’
“Decolonizing Public History?”
Monthly Editorial November 2021 Abstract: The editorial explains the attraction that colonies had for the European bourgeois world – through scientific interest, “scientific,” from today’s perspective pseudo-scientific racism, as well… Read More ›
Corona Heritage and the Omnipresence of the Present
Abstract: Shortly after going into lockdown, museums from around the world urged the public to document the COVID 19 pandemic and share it with the institution. In this contribution, ‘Corona… Read More ›
وجهات نظر حول “العصور الوسطى” في متحف اللوفر أبوظبي
The article focusses on history culture and discusses the Louvre Abu Dhabi perspectives on ‘Middle Ages’ in museums in the Arab Golf region
Women of Post-War Wroclaw – Is This Gender Public History?
Can we call the Market Square exhibition in Wroclaw in 2020 an example of gender public history?
Double Subject Orientation? The In Flanders Fields Museum
How can active involvement in the development of a narrative in a museum stimulate individual historical thinking? To what extent is subject orientation possible for individual visitors?
The Past on Display: How to Tell History In a Museum?
This article reflects on the conceptualization of history embedded in museum exhibitions and discusses competing ideas of history conveyed…
Sports History as Threatened Public History
Sports history is an ideal vehicle for historical and socially relevant questions. As a cultural heritage, however, it endures a wallflower existence, at least in Switzerland.