"We Will Remember Them" Memory and Commemoration in War Museums

<p class="up_abstract-text">David Lowenthal has observed that in today's museums, "nothing seems too horrendous to commemorate" (<a>Lowenthal 1985</a>). Yet museums frequently portray a sanitised version of warfare. The twentieth century saw the development...

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Main Author: Andrew Whitmarsh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2001-11-01
Series:Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies
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Online Access:http://www.jcms-journal.com/articles/21