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The Museums of the Armed Services
Offers an insight into the collections of 200 armed services museums throughout the UK. It includes sections on the organization and funding of such institutions, as well as information on how they fit into the wider museum context.
Military Museums in the UK
In part 1 of the guide, 136 regimental and corps museums are listed alphabetically, by location in 13 regional sections, each with its own accompanying map. Part 2 contains details of the principal national museums of military interest. The final section provides information about the Army Museums Ogilby Trust, its founder, objectives and activities in support of regimental and corps museums
Does War Belong in Museums?
Presentations of war and violence in museums generally oscillate between the fascination of terror and its instruments and the didactic urge to explain violence and, by analysing it, make it easier to handle and prevent. The museums concerned also have to face up to these basic issues about the social and institutional handling of war and violence. Does war really belong in museums? And if it does, what objectives and means are involved? Can museums avoid trivializing and aestheticising war, transforming violence, injury, death and trauma into tourist sights? What images of shock or identification does one generate - and what images would be desirable?
Museums in the Second World War
Peacetime: return to traditional collections concerns -- The past is intrinsic to museums -- The complexities of peacetime -- Appendix: primary sources -- References -- Index
Exhibiting War
A comparative study of how museum exhibitions in Britain, Canada and Australia were used to depict the First World War.
The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum
The Second World War is omnipresent in contemporary memory debates. As the war fades from living memory, this study is the first to systematically analyze how Second World War museums allow prototypical visitors to comprehend and experience the past. It analyzes twelve permanent exhibitions in Europe and North America – including the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, the House of European History in Brussels, the Imperial War Museums in London and Manchester, and the National WWII Museum in New Orleans – in order to show how museums reflect and shape cultural memory, as well as their cognitive, ethical, emotional, and aesthetic ...
