A Museum of Memories: The New ‘Vabamu’ in Tallinn
- A new generation of historians and curators have taken over the former Museum of Occupations in Tallinn, Estonia. They renamed the museum and opened a permanent exhibition built less on historical facts than on 'fragments of memory'. Technologically savvy, it challenges not only previous ways of representing Estonia's history of occupations, but also more traditional modes of presenting history in the museum. How this is done and whether it is convincing is discussed in this article.
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| Document Type: | Article |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25626/0096 |
| Creator and project details | |
| Author: | Heiko Pääbo, Eva-Clarita PettaiGND |
| Editor: | Joachim von PuttkamerGND, Michal KopečekGND, Włodzimierz BorodziejGND |
| Publishing Institution: | Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung – Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft |
| Title details | |
| Title (English): | A Museum of Memories: The New ‘Vabamu’ in Tallinn |
| Parent Title (English): | Cultures of History Forum |
| Release Date: | 2020/08/24 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2020/02/18 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2019/03/27 |
| Language: | English |
| Subject indexing | |
| DDC-Classification: | 9 Geschichte und Geografie / 90 Geschichte / 900 Geschichte und Geografie |
| Collections: | Cultures of History Forum (Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena) |
| GND Keyword: | Estland; Eesti Okupatsioonide Muuseum <Tallinn>; Kollektives Gedächtnis; Historische Ausstellung |
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| File Size: | 11286 KB |
| MIME-Type: | application/pdf |
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| Licence / Usage Agreement (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |
