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 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Change ICOM-L subscription options, unsubscribe, and search the archives at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/icom-l.html