Description: Title: Introducing Peace Museums Author: Apsel, Joyce Publisher: Routledge Binding: Hardcover Pages: 236 Dimensions: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.60d Product Weight: 0.8 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780415739160 Nominated for the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in non-fiction This volume examines peace museums, a small and important (but often overlooked) series of museums whose numbers have multiplied world-wide in recent decades. They relate stories and display artifacts-banners, diaries, and posters for example about such themes as: art and peace, antiwar histories, protest, peacekeeping and social justice and promote cultures of peace. This book introduces their different approaches from Japan, which has the largest number of sites, to Bradford, UK and Guernica, Spain. Some peace museums and centers emphasize popular peace symbols and figures, others provide alternative narratives about conscientious objection or civil disobedience, and still others are sites of persuasion, challenging the status quo about issues of war, peace, disarmament, and related issues. Introducing Peace Museums distinguishes between different types of museums that are linked to peace in name, theme or purpose and discusses the debates which surround peace museums versus museums for peace. This book is the first of its kind to critically evaluate the exhibits and activities of this group of museums, and to consider the need for a "critical peace museum studies" which analyses their varied emphasis and content. The work of an experienced specialist, this welcome introduction to peace museums considers the challenges and opportunities faced by these institutions now and in the future.
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Book Title: Introducing Peace Museums
Number of Pages: 236 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Introducing Peace Museums
Publisher: Routledge
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Archaeology, Conservation & Preservation, Peace, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, Museum Studies
Publication Year: 2015
Item Weight: 21.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Joyce Apsel
Item Length: 9.5 in
Subject Area: Travel, Art, Political Science, Social Science
Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
