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Museums, Memory and Human Rights

Museums, Memory and Human Rights

Graefenstein, Sulamith

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

General ArtSocial Movements

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 4, 2026

ISBN10: 1032804572
ISBN13: 9781032804576
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 4 2026
Pages: 260
Language: English

Museums, Memory and Human Rights examines how transregional Holocaust memory and the associated duty to remember shape museum commemorations of violent pasts and their aspirational visions of cosmopolitan justice, responsibility, and political community building.

Bringing museum studies and memory studies together, the book draws on in-depth case study analyses of four human rights museums located in Western Europe, North America, and East Asia to explore how top-down and bottom-up museums engage with the guilt-based politics of memory and human rights through their mandates and exhibitionary narratives. It shows how state-funded museums mobilise the duty to remember to close the books on the past and affirm narratives of national renewal, while grassroots museums use it to sustain ongoing demands for justice and challenge official historical accounts. At the same time, it traces convergences between these forms, showing how both types of human rights museums configure responsibility and agency in ways that may enable remembrance, belonging, and political action, or foreclose them.

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