This volume considers museums from personal experience and historical study, and from the memories of museum visitors, curators, and scholars. Representing a va

Defining Memory uses case studies of exhibits from around the country to examine how local museums, defined as museums whose collections are local in scope or w

Museums, Emotion, and Memory Culture examines the politics of emotion in history museums, combining approaches and concerns from museum, heritage and memory stu

How did communities come to terms with the collapse of communism? In order to guide the wider narrative, many former communist countries constructed museums ded

The author shows how museum culture offers a unique vantage point on the 19th and 20th centuries' preoccupation with history and subjectivity, and demonstrates