Museum Transformations (eBook)

Decolonization and Democratization

Annie E. Coombes, Ruth B. Phillips (Herausgeber)

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2020
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9781119796596 (ISBN)

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MUSEUM TRANSFORMATIONS DECOLONIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION

Edited By ANNIE E. COOMBES AND RUTH B. PHILLIPS

Museum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratization addresses contemporary approaches to decolonization, greater democratization, and revisionist narratives in museum exhibition and program development around the world. The text explores how museums of art, history, and ethnography responded to deconstructive critiques from activists and poststructuralist and postcolonial theorists, and provided models for change to other types of museums and heritage sites.

The volume's first set of essays discuss the role of the museum in the narration of difficult histories, and how altering the social attitudes and political structures that enable oppression requires the recognition of past histories of political and racial oppression and colonization in museums. Subsequent essays consider the museum's new roles in social action and discuss experimental projects that work to change power dynamics within institutions and leverage digital technology and new media.

ANNIE E. COOMBES is Professor of Material and Visual Culture at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, where she teaches museum studies and art and cultural history. She is Director of the Peltz Gallery and author of award-winning books on museums, memorialization, and the legacy of colonialism.

RUTH B. PHILLIPS is Canada Research Professor of Art History at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She has served as director of the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology and teaches and publishes on Indigenous North American art and critical museology.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations ix

Editors xiii

General Editors xiv

Contributors xv

Editors' Preface to Museum Transformations and The International Handbooks of Museum Studies xvii

Introduction: Museums in Transformation: Dynamics of Democratization and Decolonization xxv
Annie E. Coombes and Ruth B. Phillips

Part I Difficult Histories 1

1. The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and Its Information Center: Concepts, Controversies, Reactions 3
Sibylle Quack

2. Ghosts of Future Nations, or The Uses of the Holocaust Museum Paradigm in India 29
Kavita Singh

3. The International Difficult Histories Boom, the Democratization of History, and the National Museum of Australia 61
Bain Attwood

4. Where are the Children? and "We Were So Far Away ...": Exhibiting the Legacies of Residential Schools, Healing, and Reconciliation 85
Jonathan Dewar

5. Recirculating Images of the "Terrorist" in Postcolonial Museums: The Case of the National Museum of Struggle in Nicosia, Cyprus 113
Gabriel Koureas

6. Reactivating the Colonial Collection: Exhibition-Making as Creative Process at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam 133
Mary Bouquet

7. "Congo As It is?": Curatorial Reflections on Using Spatial Urban History in the Memory of Congo: The Colonial Era Exhibition 157
Johan Lagae

8. Between the Archive and the Monument: Memory Museums in Postdictatorship Argentina and Chile 181
Jens Andermann

9. The Gender of Memory in Postapartheid South Africa: The Women's Jail as Heritage Site 207
Annie E. Coombes

Part II Social Agency and the Museum 227

10. An Ethnography of Repatriation: Engagements with Erromango, Vanuatu 229
Lissant Bolton

11. Of Heritage and Hesitation: Reflections on the Melanesian Art Project at the British Museum 249
Nicholas Thomas

12. The Blackfoot Shirts Project: "Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit" 263
Alison K. Brown and Laura Peers

13. "Get to Know Your World": An Interview with Jim Enote, Director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center in Zuni, New Mexico 289
Gwyneira Isaac

14. The Paro Manene Project: Exhibiting and Researching Photographic Histories in Western Kenya 311
Christopher Morton and Gilbert Oteyo

15. Reanimating Cultural Heritage: Digital Curatorship, Knowledge Networks, and Social Transformation in Sierra Leone 337
Paul Basu

16. On Not Looking: Economies of Visuality in Digital Museums 365
Kimberly Christen

17. Preserving the Physical Object in Changing Cultural Contexts 387
Miriam Clavir

Part III Museum Experiments 413

18. The Last Frontier: Migratory Culture, Video, and Exhibiting without Voyeurism 415
Mieke Bal

19. Public Art/Private Lives: The Making of Hotel Yeoville 439
Tegan Bristow, Terry Kurgan and Alexander Opper

20. Museums, Women, and the Web 471
Reesa Greenberg

21. Möbius Museology: Curating and Critiquing the Multiversity Galleries at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia 489
Jennifer Kramer

22. When You Were Mine: (Re)Telling History at the National Museum of the American Indian 511
Paul Chaat Smith

23. Against the Edifice Complex: Vivan Sundaram's History Project and the Colonial Museum in India 527
Saloni Mathur

24. Can National Museums be Postcolonial?: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Obligation of Redress to First Nations 545
Ruth B. Phillips

Index 575

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Color plate section

0.1 Display of masks made by the Kalabari peoples from the Niger Delta in Southern Nigeria, the Sainsbury Africa Gallery at the British Museum

1.2 Room of Dimensions, Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, 2008

2.6 Street leading to Demton Khang and Tsuglugkhang Complex, McLeodganj (upper Dharamsala). The black obelisk is the Tibetan National Martyrs’ Memorial.

3.3 Theresa Napurrula Ross, National Museum of Australia

6.4 Yinka Shonibare, Planets in My Head, Literature, 2011, Colonial Theater at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, 2012

7.4 “Society” menu of the interactive display on the city of Boma

8.1 The Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Santiago de Chile

9.2 Ground plan of a cell at the Women’s Jail, Johannesburg, 2005

9.4 Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba’s wedding dress at the Women’s Jail, Johannesburg, 2005

10.2 Women in south Erromango studying photographs of barkcloth held by the British Museum, 2007

11.3 Ralph Regenvanu, The Melanesia Project, 2006, British Museum

12.3 Students from Red Crow Community College, Kainai Nation, during a visit to the Glenbow Museum

13.1 Yucca workshop, A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center

14.3 Two of Chief Owuor’s surviving wives, Dorina Owuor and Turfosa Omari, with Gilbert Oteyo, holding the framed portraits of Owuor

15.3 Mural promoting the sierraleoneheritage.org resource painted on a wall of the Sierra Leone National Museum by the Freetown‐based artist Julius Parker

15.4 Visual repatriation of history at Rotata 16.1 Three generations of Warumungu women watching and editing videos for inclusion on the DDAC website in Tennant Creek, NT, Australia, 2005

19.3 A Hotel Yeoville participant adds his story to the Google Maps API in the Journey Booth

19.6 Installation view of the Hotel Yeoville main thoroughfare

20.2 elles@centrepompidou homepage, 2009

21.1 Kwakwaka’wakw area, UBC Museum of Anthropology Multiversity Galleries

22.2 Mr. and Mrs. Ike, Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon, in front of the National Museum of the American Indian

23.2 Exhibition view: Vivan Sundaram, The History Project, 1998

24.2 “Canadian Residential Schools” module, First Peoples Hall, Canadian Museum of Civilization (now the Canadian Museum of History)

Chapter illustrations

0.1 Masks made by Kalabari peoples from the Niger Delta, Sainsbury Africa Gallery, British Museum

0.2 Tree of Life, 2004, Sainsbury Africa Gallery

0.3 Recreated Mohawk Family diorama, Daphne Cockwell Gallery of Canada: First Peoples, Royal Ontario Museum

0.4 Visual Sovereignty Dance at Masq’alors! International Mask Festival, St. Camille

1.1 Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin

1.2 Room of Dimensions, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

1.3 Room of Names, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

1.4 Room of Families, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

2.1 Khalsa Heritage Complex, Anandpur Sahib

2.2 Galleries dedicated to Guru Nanak, Khalsa Heritage Complex

2.3 Paintings of eighteenth‐century martyrs, Central Sikh Museum

2.4 Gallery view, Tibet Museum, McLeodganj

2.5 Bloodstained shirt of escapee from China, Tibet Museum

2.6 Street leading to Demton Khang and Tsuglugkhang Complex, McLeodganj

3.1 “Contested Frontiers” exhibit, National Museum of Australia

3.2 1823–1825 Wiradjuri War display, National Museum of Australia

3.3 Theresa Napurrula Ross tells of the Coniston Massacre, National Museum of Australia

4.1 Where Are the Children? at the Tom Thomson Gallery, 2009

4.2 Entrance to Where Are the Children?, Glooscap Heritage Centre, Millbrook, Nova Scotia, 2011

4.3 Entrance to Where Are the Children?, Tom Thomson Gallery, 2009

4.4 “We Were So Far Away …,” Ottawa Catholic School Board, 2010

4.5 An Elder in Arviat, Nunavut, encounters “We Were So Far Away …” at the Mikilaaq Centre, 2009

5.1 National Museum of Struggle and Archbishop’s Palace, Nicosia

5.2 Photographs of dead fighters, National Museum of Struggle

5.3 Photographs of British interrogators/torturers and of their victims, National Museum of Struggle

5.4 Execution room and memorial plaque at the Central Jail of Nicosia 6.1 Souterrain entrance, Tropenmuseum

6.2 Introductory panel to “Oceania” section of “Eastward Bound!” at the Tropenmuseum

6.3 Colonial Theater, Tropenmuseum

6.4 Yinka Shonibare, Planets in My Head, Literature, 2011

7.1 The color bar as reflected in urban form and architecture, Royal Museum for Central Africa

7.2 Main interface of interactive display on the city of Boma, Royal Museum for Central Africa

7.3 Title page of interactive display on Boma

7.4 “Society” menu of the interactive display on Boma

7.5 “Violence” menu of the interactive display on Boma

8.1 Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Santiago de Chile

8.2 Jorge Tacla, Al mismo tiempo, en el mismo lugar, Museum of Memory and Human Rights

8.3 Museum of Memory, Rosario

8.4 Former concentration camp at Police Headquarters, Plaza Cívica, Rosario

9.1 Monument to the Women of South Africa, by Wilma Cruise and Marcus Holme, 2000

9.2 Ground plan of a cell, Women’s Jail, Johannesburg

9.3 Installations across the atrium, Women’s Jail

9.4 Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba’s wedding dress, Women’s Jail

10.1 Erromangan women ready to perform at Vanuatu’s Third National Arts Festival, Port Vila

10.2 Women in south Erromango studying photographs of barkcloth held by the British Museum

11.1 Shield, Trobriand Islands, British Museum

11.2 Workroom at British Museum ethnograph store

11.3 Ralph Regenvanu, The Melanesia Project, 2006

12.1 Blackfoot shirts on display at the Glenbow Museum

12.2 Discussing leggings and shirts at the Pitt Rivers Museum

12.3 Students from Red Crow Community College, Kainai Nation, during a visit to the Glenbow Museum

12.4 Teacher training session at the Glenbow Museum

13.1 Yucca workshop, A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center

13.2 Zuni waffle gardens

14.1 Photo of Jacob Odawo and Archdeacon W. E. Owen by E. E. Evans‐Pritchard, 1936, Pitt Rivers Museum

14.2 Pupils at Rakombe Primary School view the Paro Manene exhibition

14.3 Two of Chief Owuor’s surviving wives, Dorina Owuor and Turfosa Omari, holding his framed portraits

14.4 Framed portraits in the home of a surviving wife of Chief Owuor

15.1 The sierraleoneheritage.org digital resource

15.2 Frames from the sowei video documentation

15.3 Mural promoting sierraleoneheritage.org on a wall of the Sierra Leone National Museum

15.4 Visual repatriation of history at Rotata

15.5 The Reanimating Cultural Heritage project

16.1 Warumungu women watching and editing videos for the DDAC website

16.2 Home page of the DDAC website

16.3 Recreation on DDAC website of Aboriginal community’s covering over of images of the deceased in museum spaces

16.4 Inuvialuit Living History Project team examine engraved wooden plaques

16.5 Inuvialuit Pitqusit Inuuniarutait/Inuvialuit Living History homepage

18.1 Watching films on the lecterns/little houses in Towards the Other

18.2 Watching Nothing Is Missing in Towards the Other

19.1 Hotel Yeoville visitor in the Photo Booth

19.2 Comments left in the Photo Booth by Hotel Yeoville visitors

19.3 Hotel Yeoville participant adds his story to the Journey Booth

19.4 Hotel Yeoville visitor making a YouTube video in the Video Booth

19.5 Hotel Yeoville exhibition layout

19.6 Installation view of Hotel Yeoville main thoroughfare

20.1 WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution homepage

20.2 elles@centrepompidou homepage

20.3 Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism homepage

21.1 Kwakwaka’wakw area, Multiversity Galleries, UBC Museum of Anthropology

21.2 Nuxalk raven rattles, UBC Museum of Anthropology

22.1 National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC

22.2 Mr. and Mrs. Ike, Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon, at the National Museum of the American Indian

22.3 Installation of guns and Bibles, National Museum of the American Indian

23.1 Victoria Memorial Museum, Kolkata

23.2 Vivan Sundaram, The History...

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.11.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Schlagworte: Art & Applied Arts • Kunst u. Angewandte Kunst • Museen u. Kulturerbe • Museum • Museum & Heritage Studies
• ISBN-13: 9781119796596 / 9781119796596