CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Badica, Simina |
|---|---|
| Title | Curating Communism. A Comparative History of Museological Practices in Post-War (1946-1958) and Post-Communist Romania. |
| Summary | This dissertation is an attempt to look at history museums historically, to establish genealogies of their discourses and curatorial practice in times of social change. It proposes a genealogy of exhibiting communism, crucial for understanding current attempts at building museums of communism. The Romanian communist regime’s self-representation in museums is both model and anti-model for current exhibitions on the recent past. The thesis also highlights the transnational network of museums that shaped the form and content of Romanian museums in the 1950s and 1990s. The dissertation argues that museums of communism of the 1950s are linked with post-1989 (anti)communist museums not only by subject, inherited buildings and artifacts but also by curatorial practice. It argues that curatorial practice, in general, is historically determined and the museum function poorly if the content of the museum and the museology that exhibits it stand in contrast. |
| Supervisor | Rev, Istvan |
| Department | History PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/hphras01.pdf |
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