Title: Childhood in the shadows of war in museum exhibitions
Variant title:
- Dětství ve stínu války v muzejních výstavách
Source document: Museologica Brunensia. 2024, vol. 13, iss. 1, pp. 2-13
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2-13
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ISSN1805-4722 (print)2464-5362 (online)
Persistent identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.5817/MuB2024-1-1
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.80183
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License: CC BY-SA 4.0 International
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Abstract(s)
This article focuses on the presentation of the complexity of war-affected childhood in museum exhibitions and learning environments. The paper addresses contemporary museological practice and its educational dimension in the Bundeswehr Museum of Military History, the Second World War Museum in Gdansk and the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina. The study reveals that museum exhibitions often depict war-affected childhood through a variety of media, including images, artefacts, personal stories, oral history sources, as well as reconstructions and simulations of the past. The analysed museums have developed interactive exhibits and a variety of educational programmes that allow young visitors to critically engage with the past, and practise competencies of democratic culture. The author argues that museum education assets, aimed at stimulating social dialogue about the impact of war on children and society, are crucial, especially in conflict and postconflict societies.
Tento článek se zaměřuje na prezentaci složitých podmínek dětství poznačeného válkou prostřednictvím muzejních výstav a výukových prostředí. Příspěvek se zabývá současnou muzejní praxí a jejím vzdělávacím rozměrem ve Vojenském historickém muzeu Bundeswehru, Muzeu druhé světové války v Gdaňsku a Muzeu válečného dětství v Sarajevu v Bosně a Hercegovině. Výsledky studie ukazují, že muzejní výstavy často zobrazují válkou poznačené dětství prostřednictvím různých médií, zahrnujících obrázky, artefakty, osobní příběhy, prameny orální historie, stejně jako rekonstrukce a simulace minulosti. Muzea, která byla předmětem analýzy, vytvořila interaktivní exponáty a různé vzdělávací programy, které umožňují mladým návštěvníkům kritický pohled na minulost a uplatnění znalostí o demokratické kultuře. Muzejní pedagogika zaměřená na stimulaci sociálního dialogu o dopadu války na děti a společnost má podle autorky klíčový význam, zejména v konfliktních a post-konfliktních společnostech.
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