Experiencing memory museums in Berlin. The Otto Weidt Workshop for the Blind Museum and the Jewish Museum Berlin

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Souto, A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0110-0137, 2018. Experiencing memory museums in Berlin. The Otto Weidt Workshop for the Blind Museum and the Jewish Museum Berlin. Museum & Society, 16 (1), pp. 1-27. ISSN 1479-8360

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Abstract

This article explores memory studies from the audience’s perspective, focusing on the perception of Holocaust narratives in two museums in Berlin. This research builds on and contributes to a number of emerging issues in memory studies, tourism perception and museum design: the debate on experiential authenticity, Dark Tourism, and the analysis of memory studies from the perspective of the user. The main data facilitating the analysis is based on responses shared on TripAdvisor; the case studies being the Otto Weidt Workshop for the Blind Museum and the Jewish Museum Berlin. The analysis of these museums, focusing on their narratives, design features and comments from visitors, will highlight a potential shift from the traditional object-focused museum, to a phenomenological subject focused one. It will be argued, then, that the understanding and consumption of authenticity encompasses a very flexible definition, not only based on the nature of the objects exhibited, but on the production of authentic experiences.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Museum & Society
Creators:	Souto, A.
Publisher:	University of Leicester
Date:	31 March 2018
Volume:	16
Number:	1
ISSN:	1479-8360
Rights:	Copyright © 2018 Ana Souto. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	04 Apr 2018 13:34
Last Modified:	04 Apr 2018 13:34
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/33181