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Museums in the Second World War - Curators, Culture and Change (Hardcover)
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Museums in the Second World War - Curators, Culture and Change (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
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Exploring the role of museums, galleries and curators during the
upheaval of the Second World War, this book challenges the accepted
view of a hiatus in museum services during the conflict and its
immediate aftermath. Instead it argues that new thinking in the
1930s was realised in a number of promising initiatives during the
war only to fail during the fragmented post-war recovery. Based on
new research including interviews with retired museum staff,
letters, diaries, museum archives and government records, this
study reveals a complex picture of both innovation and inertia. At
the outbreak of war precious objects were stored away and staff
numbers reduced, but although many museums were closed, others
successfully campaigned to remain open. By providing innovative
modern exhibitions and education initiatives they became popular
and valued venues for the public. After the war, however, museums
returned to their more traditional, collections-centred approach
and failed to negotiate the public funding needed for
reconstruction based on this narrower view of their role. Hence, in
the longer term, the destruction and economic and social
consequences of the conflict served to delay aspirations for
reconstruction until the 1960s. Through this lens, the history of
the museum in the mid-twentieth century appears as one shaped by
the effects of war but equally determined by the input of curators,
audiences and the state. The museum thus emerges not as an isolated
institution concerned only with presenting the past but as a
product of the changing conflicts and cultures within society.
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