The New Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museum London: Conception, Design, Interpretation

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The New Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museum London

Conception, Design, Interpretation

Edited by: Stephan Jaeger and James Bulgin

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Volume 3 | Museums and Narrative

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In October 2021, Imperial War Museums (IWM) opened its new Holocaust Galleries in its London branch, replacing its first Holocaust Exhibition (from 2000) that had become a landmark in British Holocaust memory. Because of its comprehensive nature and intricate scenography, the new Holocaust Galleries are at the centre of almost all recent major narrative, political, and ethical debates about Holocaust representation in museums. The book provides an ideal global case-study understanding the possibilities and limitations of re-presenting trauma and violence in museums today and whether Holocaust exhibitions can promote democratic, civic, or human rights values, making it an important resource for museum practitioners, public history educators, and university researchers alike, interested in Historical, Museum, Memory, Holocaust, Genocide, or Cultural Studies. The volume brings together texts written by museum practitioners and academic scholars. It is divided in three parts: a long essay by James Bulgin, Head of Content for the new Holocaust Galleries, about the genesis and implementation of the exhibition, supplemented with briefer essays by educators and community members involved in the development of the exhibition, an extensive interview by Stephan Jaeger with IWM researchers James Bulgin and Suzanne Bardgett, and an extensive part with six critical essays by university scholars analysing the new Holocaust Galleries from numerous theoretical angles.

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James Bulgin, Imperial War Museum, London, UK, and Stephan Jaeger, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed
Introduction: Between Curation and Scholarly Analysis – the Holocaust Galleries as a Case Study for Holocaust Representation in the Museum Stephan Jaeger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: Conception & Design
“Not a Book on the Wall”: Conception and Design of the Holocaust Galleries James Bulgin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	19
Conception, Design, Interpretation: The Holocaust Learning Programme at the Imperial War Museum London Clare Lawlor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
Experiences as Rabbinic Advisor to the Imperial War Museum when Creating the Holocaust Galleries Nicky Liss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	183
Opening a Door into History: Artefacts that Revealed my Family’s Past and the Imperial War Museum Tim Locke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	191
Part II: Conversation
Narrating the Holocaust in the New Holocaust Galleries of the Imperial War Museum London: James Bulgin and Suzanne Bardgett in Conversation with Stephan Jaeger James Bulgin, Suzanne Bardgett and Stephan Jaeger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
Part III: Interpretation
A New Schema for Cultural Memory: The Holocaust Galleries Andy Pearce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	287
Shifting Theatricalities in the Holocaust Galleries Bryce Lease Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	311
Holocaust Representation in the Museum in Experiential Structures: Between History and Meta-Reflexive Narrative Form Stephan Jaeger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	323
Engaging Agency during Genocide: A Close Reading of the Sections “Massacre” and “Killing Centres” in the Holocaust Galleries Hannah Holtschneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	347
Visitor Engagement with the Holocaust Galleries Diana I. Popescu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	367
“The Walls Are where They Are”: An Infrastructural Approach to the Holocaust Galleries Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	395
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed

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eBook published on:

August 22, 2025

eBook ISBN:

9783111490274

Hardcover published on:

August 22, 2025

Hardcover ISBN:

9783111427522

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Front matter:

14

Main content:

432

Illustrations:

2

Coloured Illustrations:

39

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111490274

eBook ISBN: 9783111490274

Hardcover ISBN: 9783111427522

Keywords for this book

Holocaust Education; Genocide and Human Rights Museums; Exhibition Curation; Memory Studies

Audience(s) for this book

Scholars of Museum Studies, Cultural Studies, History

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The New Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museum London

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