Zeitverschluss | Frozen Time: Das Museum als Panikraum | Museums as Panic Rooms

Valentin Groebner

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2023

Zeitverschluss | Frozen Time

Das Museum als Panikraum | Museums as Panic Rooms

Valentin Groebner

Volume 1 in the series Vienna Public History Lectures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111234922

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In the 21st century, historical buildings, works of art and collections are far from being tiresome remains of the past, like they were in the modernisation boosts of the 19^th century or even still in the 1950s and 1960s. Today, they are meticulously guarded and elaborately upkept treasures: irreplaceable materialisations of collective self-images, national heritage and at the same time, valuable resources of touristic commercialisation. Hence, they have to be preserved at any cost and – when damaged in an accident – have to be restored at all costs.

This notion correlates with the 21^st century’s self-description as innovative and future-oriented in a way that needs explanation. Frozen Times explores these paradoxes with a series of on-site visits in institutions that allow us to survey the past, from Vienna to Weimar and Zurich. Historical memorial sites and museums can obviously take many forms, from a temple to a supermarket, from a relic shrine to a bunker. They are shelters, time capsules and sanatoria, clinics for the treatment of phantom pain. What are they promising to protect their visitors from?

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Valentin Groebner

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(Deutsch)

Languages: German, English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Historians; museum professionals; students of public history, the pedagogy of history, and museum studies
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 67
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 4
Keywords: Twenty-first century; historical culture; museums; museum; public history; tourism

eBook

Published: August 7, 2023
ISBN: 9783111234922

Paperback

Published: August 21, 2023
ISBN: 9783111233574