Essays about: "permanent exhibitions"

Found 3 essays containing the words permanent exhibitions.

  1. 1. The forgetting institution: Memory and oblivion in the National History Museum in contemporary Albania

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Julián Emiro Roa Triana; [2020-09-03]
    Keywords : Museums; National history; Memory; Oblivion; Albania;

    Abstract : National museums are institutions that exhibit historical narratives politically influenced by individuals, groups or governments. These actions are implemented inside the exhibition space of museums through the creation of specific projects of memory and oblivion that seek to convert historic memory in an ideological tool. READ MORE

  3. 2. Death Sells: Thanatourism Theming as a Sustainability Strategy at Gotlands Museum

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för teknikvetenskaper; Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Katherine Uziallo; [2019]
    Keywords : sustainable destination development; destination development; sustainable tourism; tourism; heritage tourism; dark tourism; thanatourism; museums; new museology; Gotlands Museum; Gotland; Gotlandic history; sustainability;

    Abstract : Over the past century the phenomenon of thanatourism, or dark tourism, has become increasingly popular, with tourists now able to encounter death at a wide range of sites across the world. While much scholarship has focused on tourism at sites of disaster and atrocity, less research has taken place into thanatourism in a museum context. READ MORE

  4. 3. Treading the Timeline : A Study of the Newly Renovated Permanent Art and Design Exhibition at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Linn Högström-Schnee; [2018]
    Keywords : art history; art museums; history of art exhibitions; museology; Nationalmuseum; permanent exhibitions; public museums; ritual structure;

    Abstract : The present study is, to my knowledge, the first investigating the newly renovated and rearranged permanent art and design exhibition at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm: The Timeline. The exhibition presents Western art from 1500 to 1914 and design and portraiture from 1500 until today in a chronological arrangement. READ MORE