Communism on Display. Representations of the Past in Polish Historical Museums

• Authors: Anna Ziębińska-Witek

Abstracts

EN

The article analyzes museum representations of communism in Poland from the perspective of exhibition strategies influencing the public understanding of the past. Over the past forty years, Western museums have increasingly moved away from the affirmative model of presenting the past, dominating since the nineteenth century, towards critical paradigms and even those pro-moting social activism. The analysis of Polish exhibitions devoted to recent history carried out from this perspective allows us to reveal the functions fulfilled by museum institutions in the Polish social and political reality.

Keywords

EN

historical museum; communism; exhibition; museological paradigm

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Historyka Studia Metodologiczne
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 51
• Issue: Spec. iss.
• Pages: 389-403

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Anna Ziębińska-Witek

• Maria Curie‑Sklodowska University, Lublin

• https://orcid.org/000000032682748X

Identifiers

DOI

10.24425/hsm.2021.138894

Biblioteka Nauki

20312134