History between red brackets: the Cold War in history museums around the Baltic Sea

Collection:
Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
Document Type:
Straipsnis / Article
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
History between red brackets: the Cold War in history museums around the Baltic Sea
In the Journal:
Museum Worlds. 2019, Vol. 7, iss. 1, p. 165-181
Summary / Abstract:

ENThis article derives from the research project entitled “Art, Culture and Conflict: Transformations of Museums and Memory Culture around the Baltic Sea after 1989,” which was financed by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University. It discusses how history museums in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have reacted to the fall of the Iron Curtain and the conclusion of the Soviet occupation of the three Baltic states. It argues that the Cold War is understood by the museums as a special historical epoch not comparable to any other historical period in these six countries. It concludes that to be able to deal with this particular point in history we either need to metaphorically put the Cold War in between red brackets, as it were, which makes it possible to address the Cold War when needed, or to place it outside the historical narrative of the modern rise of the five discussed nation-states. Keywords: Baltic states; Cold War; collections; Finland; museums; narrative; Sweden. [From the publication]

DOI:
10.3167/armw.2019.070111
ISSN:
2049-6729; 2049-6737
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National museums in Lithuania: a story of state building (1855-2010) / Eglė Rindzevičiūtė. Building national museums in Europe 1750-2010. Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press, 2011. P. 521-552.
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