THE REVOLUTIONARY MUSEUM: CURATING THE MUSEUM OF COMMUNIST PARTY HISTORY IN ROMANIA (1948-1958)
THE REVOLUTIONARY MUSEUM: CURATING THE MUSEUM OF COMMUNIST PARTY HISTORY IN ROMANIA (1948-1958)
Author(s): Simina BădicăSubject(s): History
Published by: Ovidius University Press
Keywords: Propaganda museum; Communist museography; Representation of communism, History museum; Visitor studies
Summary/Abstract: The late 1940s and early 1950s are paradoxically flourishing years in Romanian museology, at least in the number of museums established, inaugurated and reorganized. This article is concerned with the most important ideological museum established in Romania in 1948, the History Museum of the Romanian Communist Party. Informally called the Party Museum it underwent numerous changes of names, discourse and leadership, all the while remaining the blueprint for creating exhibitions of recent history in Romanian museum all through the Socialist period. This article sheds light on the first decade of its existence analyzing the context of its inauguration and its museographical discourse as it could be revealed from archival and published sources
Journal: HISTORICAL YEARBOOK
- Issue Year: 10/2013
- Issue No: X
- Page Range: 95-109
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English
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