Migracje przymusowe w przekazie muzealnym. Wysiedlenia, przesiedlenia i deportacje w przestrzeni wystawienniczej Muzeum II Wojny Światowej w Gdańsku

• Authors: Chinciński Tomasz , Rabant Tomasz

Title variants

EN

Forced Migrations in a Museum Presentation. Evictions, Resettlements and Deportations in the Exhibition Space of World War II Museum in Gdańsk

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article addresses the issue of how to show massive population resettlements during World War II in a museum space, on the example of the main exhibition in the World War II Museum in Gdańsk. It attempts to answer the following questions: whether the Museum is a good place for a story about the mass evictions, resettlements and deportations carried out during World War II by two the totalitarian regimes: Nazi and Communist? The authors consider how to present historical narratives concerning eviction, resettlement and deportation by the Third Reich and the Soviet Union in a museum space and to reconcile scientific integrity with the requirements of a modern formula of the Museum. Can one find in a modern museum a place to explain the reasons of the suffering of millions of people through a deepened historical narrative, or whether it should focus only on preserving the memory of the mass displacements and resettlements of the population, dominated by a martyrological narrative? The article deals with such issues as contemporary forms and tasks of museums, the main assumptions of a museum narrative and scenographic exhibition solutions of the World War II Museum in the area of forced migration.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: Studia Historica Gedanensia
• Year: 2014
• Volume: Volume 5 (2014)
• Pages: 408-420

Dates

online

2014

Contributors

author

Chinciński Tomasz

• Muzeum II Wojny Światowej w Gdańsku, Długa 81/83, Gdańsk, Polska

author

Rabant Tomasz

• Muzeum II Wojny Światowej w Gdańsku, Długa 81/83, Gdańsk, Polska

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/23916001HG.14.020.2685