Museums

Museums give us access to the world and also help us understand it. They build bridges from the past to the present and the future. What historical images of ‘us’ and ‘them’ are conveyed in museum exhibitions? Where do museum artifacts come from? Who do they belong to? Many museums are currently embarking on a critical revision of their own collections, looking for new approaches to role of museums in society.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story

“Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.” (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2009)

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Thematic Areas Stories of MigrationEmpowermentHistoryPedagogical Expertise

Types of Media Videos & FilmsLiterary TextsContributions from Science

Fields of action Civil Society

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Multidirectional Memory and Entangled (Hi)stories

How are memories told? What memories are shared? How does the hegemonic, and “overwhelmingly national perspective” deal with the challenge that more stories and memories demand entry into historiography and public memory?

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Thematic Areas Stories of MigrationRacismAnti-SemitismDiversityEmpowermentHistoryLanguageReligionPedagogical Expertise

Types of Media Literary TextsMethodsCollectionContributions from Science

Fields of action TheatersMuseumsMemorialsSchoolsCultureCivil Society

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