COLD WAR MUSEOLOGY

"Cold War Museology is the first volume to bring together interdisciplinary and international contributions from leading practitioners and academics specialising in Cold War museology. Bringing the most recent historiography of the Cold War into conversation with museological theory and practic...

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Other Authors:Douthwaite, Jessica (Editor)
Nehring, Holger (Editor)
Alberti, Samuel J. M. M. (Editor)
Format: Online-Resource
Language:English
Published:[S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2025
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Table of Contents
Making and unmaking the Cold War in museums / Holger Nehring, Samuel J.M.M. Alberti and Jessica Douthwaite
Readiness for red alert : Engaging with the material culture of the Royal Observer Corps / Sarah Harper
Anchoring museum objects in the Cold War : the hidden meanings of a Transatlantic telephone cable / Holger Nehring
Beyond Janus-faced narratives : object lessons from the travelling-wave maser / Johannes-Geert Hagmann
The Vulcan's voice : multiple meanings of a Cold War artefact / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti
Cold War through the looking glass : espionage objects, authenticity and multiperspectivity / Jim Gledhill
Bunkers revisited : co-producing memory, meaning and materiality in Danish Cold War museums / Rosanna Farbøl
Creating a new Cold War museum : curatorial reflections / Ulla Egeskov & Bodil Frandsen
A war that never was : locating, collecting, and exhibiting the experiences of British forces in Cold War West Germany / Peter Johnston
There can't be any Berlin Wall left : oral history, 'domestic museums' and the search for a British Cold War / Grace Huxford
Looking out from Point Alpha : entangled histories in a Cold War borderland / Adam R. Seipp
Cold War time : contemporary military heritage in Sweden / Cecilia Åse, Mattias Frihammar, Fredrik Krohn Andersson and Maria Wendt Robinson
How the U-2 became a museum object : local identities and museum collections at the Norwegian Aviation Museum in Bodø / Karl Kleve
Competing for authenticity, nostalgia, and visitor revenue in Cold War Museums / Peter Robinson and Milka Ivanova
What colour was the Cold War? / Jessica Douthwaite.