Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2021.1970901
Sofie Scheen Jahnsen
ABSTRACT This paper explores the tensions that arise when museums adopt a particular moral and political standpoint while at the same time attempting to recognize and making space for a plurality of perspectives. The study draws on a visual, textual, and comparative analysis of two exhibitions: Typical at the Intercultural Museum and FOLK: from racial types to DNA sequences at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, both located in Oslo, Norway. Alongside interviews with the exhibition producers, the analysis examines how the exhibitions communicate certain standpoints in relation to questions of diversity and demographic changes in contemporary Norway, while simultaneously facilitating an open dialog and debate. The findings suggest that these two roles can be hard to reconcile and ultimately influence museums’ attempts at creating genuine spaces for democratic debate.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2019.1992832
Sydney Goggins
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the New York Times’ The 1619 Project and its engagement with public memory, focusing primarily on two articles, by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Jamelle Bouie, that reframe America’s political history. While every piece in The 1619 project, and the archive as a whole, engages meaningfully with public memory, these pieces are most representative of the archive’s rhetorical interventions against harmful narratives about the nation’s past predicated on selective forgetting. Indeed, The 1619 Project has significant implications for rhetorical studies, providing a template of how archival rhetorical texts can resist the erasure of historical injustices from public memory. After examining these two articles as case studies of how The 1619 Project engages with public memory, the paper will also discuss responses to the project, which have important implications for memory studies and museum studies, in particular for discussions of how forgetting operates within particular historical discourses.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2021.1950308
Sarah Jesse
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2021.1986896
Kristina Ter-Kazarian, J. Luke
ABSTRACT In recent years, museums have actively embraced their role in health and well-being. Although the interest in examining museums’ health impacts is growing, the field lacks robust evidence of measurable well-being benefits that would allow art museums to expand their social role and realize their health-enhancing potential for the communities they serve. The purpose of our study was to explore the influence of a brief art museum visit on people’s psychological and physiological indicators of stress, including self-reported stress, self-reported arousal, and saliva cortisol. A single group pre- and post-test approach was used, and data were collected through self-administered questionnaires and saliva samples (n = 31). Results demonstrated that average levels of self-reported stress and arousal were significantly reduced by a museum visit; levels of saliva cortisol were unchanged. The research suggests that art museums have an opportunity to strengthen their social role by becoming health and well-being resources for their communities.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2019.2015108
J. Larkin, C. Sterling
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2018.1610648
J. Schuch, Susan B. Harden, Kamille Bostick, Heather A. Smith
ABSTRACT In 2016, Levine Museum of the New South (LMNS) developed an innovative Sustained Dialogue program aimed at engaging and training a diverse group of Millennials in dialogue. University researchers partnered with museum staff in the program development, implementation, and evaluation. The program led to awareness and critical reflection at multiple scales: individual, group, and the broader community. Participants enhanced their cultural competence and their ability to facilitate conversations about difficult and pressing community issues. The program also helped participants identify solutions and actions to make their communities more inclusive. Participants realized the power of dialogue as a tool for introspection, interaction and social change. Millennials are attracted to programming that is informal, non-hierarchical, involves movement and (inter)activity, and builds skills and networks useful to everyday life. Millennials believe in grassroots efforts and incorporating technology as a way to share experiences, though face-to-face interactions are still viewed as meaningful.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2019.1607086
E. Jeffreys
ABSTRACT This paper examines the growing political importance of philanthropy in the People’s Republic of China as presented in the Chinese Charity Museum, probably the only national-level museum in the world to feature permanent exhibits focused solely on the subject of philanthropy. The paper explains why charitable practices, which purportedly flourished in pre-communist China, “disappeared” during the Mao era (1949–1976), and why philanthropy is now a government-endorsed activity. It then examines the state-prescribed role of Chinese museology and the creation of a charity museum in Nantong City, before investigating the socio-political narrative that frames the Nantong collection. It concludes that the museum’s “story” simplifies and elides the significant change in forms of philanthropic institutions and practices in contemporary China, relative to their pre-1949 precursors, but yields new insight into how the Chinese Communist Party is recasting philanthropy as an integral part of socialist culture and state-led welfare provision.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2019.1637640
Jarrad W. Paul
ABSTRACT Vikings: Beyond the Legend was shown at the Melbourne Museum (Australia) amongst a backdrop of local debate when it was decided after consultation with the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee that human remains as part of the exhibit would not be displayed. This article assesses reviews and online comments related to the exhibition in Melbourne and compares them with online reviews from Sydney, Colorado, and Nantes where the remains were displayed. Overall, initial public responses show little change between the institutions that did and did not display human remains. However, an increase in negative public response in Melbourne a month into the exhibition’s residency was noticeably. It is argued that news coverage from a parallel exhibition, Real Bodies, shifted communication focus which led to an increase in online participation. Discussion advocates for an in-depth analysis regarding the presentation of non-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People remains in Australian museums.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2018.1603031
Kaja Hannedatter Sontum
ABSTRACT This paper explores the capacity of museums to stimulate critical reflection and dialog on constructions of human difference, and thereby to serve as agents of social change. The study draws on material from focus groups with youths, aged 16–18, following their visit to the exhibition FOLK – from racial types to DNA sequences at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology in Oslo. By juxtaposing past and present ideas and research on human biological variation, and its political and social ramifications, the exhibition aims to provoke consciousness and debate on strategies of establishing Us and Them. Discourse analysis demonstrates the negotiations involved in audience meaning-making, but also indicate the transforming potential of engagement with difficult heritage. The interactions and discussions between the visitors themselves emerge as an important ingredient in what constitute this potential. Museums are, however, in the position to become arenas for such deep discussion.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2018.1620570
D. Allison
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