General Information

Author/Creator

Sodaro, Amy, 1975- author.

Language

English.

Published

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2018.

Physical Description

ix, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents/Summary

Summary

"Today, nearly any group or nation with violence in its past has constructed or is planning a memorial museum as a mechanism for confronting past trauma, often together with truth commissions, trials, and/or other symbolic or material reparations. Exhibiting Atrocity documents the emergence of the memorial museum as a new cultural form of commemoration, and analyzes its use in efforts to come to terms with past political violence and to promote democracy and human rights. Through a global comparative approach, Amy Sodaro uses in-depth case studies of five exemplary memorial museums that commemorate a range of violent pasts and allow for a chronological and global examination of the trend: the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC; the House of Terror in Budapest; the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda; the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile; and the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York. Together, these case studies illustrate the historical emergence and global spread of the memorial museum and show how this new cultural form of commemoration is intended to be used in contemporary societies around the world"--

Subjects

Subject

Memorialization > Museums.

Political atrocities > Museums.

Genocide > Museums.

Crimes against humanity > Museums.

Collective memory.

Historical museums.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Amy Sodaro.

Content

Memorial museums: the emergence of a new form -- The US Holocaust Memorial Museum: the creation of a "living memorial" -- The House of Terror: "the only one of its kind" -- The Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre: building a "lasting peace" -- The Museum of Memory and Human Rights: "a living museum for Chile's memory" -- The National September 11 Memorial Museum: "to bear solemn witness" -- Memorial museums: promises and limits.

ISBN

9780813592145

9780813592138

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	069 SOD		Reference	-

Browse related items