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The International Committee for Museums of Ethnography (ICME) an international committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) is proud to announce a new book,  Museums and Truth.  This collection of papers

Museums and Truth 
Editor(s):Annette B. Fromm, Viv Golding, Per B. Rekdal

Contributors: Mario Buletic, Annette B. Fromm, Ann Siri Hegseth Garberg, Dr Viv Golding, Klas Grinell, Marie-Paule Jungblut, More...

Museums are usually seen as arenas for the authorised presentations of reality, based on serious, professional knowledge. Yet, in spite of the impossibility of giving anything but a highly abstract and extremely selective impression in an exhibition, very few museums problematize this or discuss their priorities with their public. They don't ask "what are the other truths of the matter?" Though the essays in this collection are not written with museums and truth as their explicit subject, they highlight contested truths, the absence of the truth of the underprivileged, whether one truth is more worthy than the other, and whether lesser truths can dilute the value of greater truths. One of the articles included here lets youngsters choose which truth is most probable or just, while another talks about an exhibition where the public must choose which truth to adhere to before entering. One shows how a political change gives a new opportunity to finally restore valuable truths of the past to the present, and another describes the highly dangerous task of making museums and memorials for the truths of the oppressed. Lastly, one explores whether we live in a period where the sources for authorized truths are fragmented and questioned, and asks, what should the consequences for museums be?



Museums and Truth 
Table of Contents:
Foreword - Annette B. Fromm
Preface - Viv Golding

Introduction - Per B. Rekdal

Part One: Truths, Faiths and Realities
Chapter One - Museums and Truths: The Elephant in the Room - Viv Golding

Part Two: Museums and 'Difficult' Heritage
Chapter Two - Peace is Never Neutral -
Per B. Rekdal

Chapter Three - Concepts of Remembrance and Commemoration - Bäerbel Kerkhoff Hader

Chapter Four - Proposing a Museum of Memory: Reparations and the Maya Achí
Genocide in Guatemala - Heidi McKinnon

Chapter Five - Towards which Reconciliation? Musealogical Approaches in the Istrian
Region - Mario Buletic

Chapter Six - Black Holes of Memory: Defining a Norwegian Museum of Human
Rights - Leiv Sem
Part Three: Coping with Old Realities in New Settings
Chapter Seven - Framing Religious World Views in Museum Presentations - Anette Rein

Chapter Eight - Murder and Manslaughter: An Exhibition about Life - Marie-Paul Jungblut and Simon Schweizer

Chapter Nine - Minda, the Girl in the Pharmacy: An Educational Program on Sexual
Assault - Ann Siri Hegseth Garberg

Part Four: Emerging Postnormality in Museums?
Chapter Ten - Challenging Normality: Museums In/As Public Space - Klas Grinell

Hardback
ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-5449-8
ISBN-10: 1-4438-5449-2
Date of Publication: 01/02/2014
Price: £44.99

http://www.cambridgescholars.com/museums-and-truth-10


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