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Title
Memories, voices and silences in museums
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008:
Author(s)
Publication Date
2011
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008
Abstract
I have a passion and respect for the work done by local and regional museums as cultural institutions that survive on small budgets and the assistance of committed volunteers. I am fascinated by the memories they hold - in their collections and through their volunteers - and those that are absent. I am intrigued by the ways in which they interpret their collections: the sometimes apparently muddled over-collections that are left to speak for themselves; the themes selected; the strategies used; the connections - and disconnections - to community and to community memories. In my talk in an MA symposium on Museums, 'Memory and Ethics' in May, I focused on two strands: the ways in which oral history scholarship provides insight into the silences and mistakes that are encountered in museums; and the power of what I refer to as memory exhibitions. I have written about mistakes, silences and remembering in local museums elsewhere. Here I focus on memory exhibitions and, in particular, one memory exhibition.
Publication Type
Journal Article
Source of Publication
Museums Australia Magazine, 20(1), p. 10-13
Publisher
Museums Australia Inc
Place of Publication
Australia
ISSN
1449-4043
1038-1694
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