From Technical Showroom to Full-fledged Museum: The German Tank Museum Munster

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Editorial 2
3. Content 5
4. Does War Belong in Museums? The Representation of Violence in Exhibitions 9
5. Introduction 13
6. DOES WAR BELONG IN MUSEUMS?
7. Museums and the Representation of War 21
8. IF WAR DOES BELONG IN MUSEUMS: HOW?
9. Military Museums and Social History 41
10. DISPLAYING WAR
11. Contents and Space: New Concept and New Building of the Militärhistorisches Museum of the Bundeswehr 63
12. From Technical Showroom to Full-fledged Museum: The German Tank Museum Munster 83
13. The Museum of Military History/Institute of Military History in Vienna: History, Organisation and Significance 99
14. THE BEAUTY OF WAR AND THE ATTRACTIVITY OF VIOLENCE
15. The Concept for a New Permanent Exhibition at the Museum Altes Zeughaus 107
16. About the Beauty of War and the Attractivity of Violence 123
17. The Bomb and the City: Presentations of War in German City Museums 131
18. THE TRAUMA OF WAR AND THE LIMITS OF MEDIA
19. War in Context: Let the Artifacts Speak 145
20. War Museums and Photography 155
21. The Monument is Invisible, the Sign Visible. Monuments in New Perspectives 173
22. MILITARY HISTORY, WAR MUSEUMS AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
23. Politics of Memory and History in the Museum – The New “Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War” in Minsk/Belarus 185
24. Framing the Military-Nation: New War Museums and Changing Representational Practices in Turkey since 2002 203
25. Contributors 219