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From Unremembered to Overremembered. Gender in the Holocaust Museums of Hungary and Slovakia

  • Andrea Petö*
  • , Borbála Klacsmann
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University College Dublin

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

In museums, the history of the Holocaust is told through various means of exhibition construction, including architecture/space, texts, artifacts, photographs, and digital technologies. The article focuses on the gendered history of the Holocaust in museums as institutions in Central Europe after the illiberal turn and evaluates how (and if) the museums incorporate the gender perspective in their narratives. It argues that illiberal museological practices are using “her-story turn” in these Holocaust museums as the primary tool to contribute to the paradigm change in Holocaust memorialization.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)166-176
Number of pages11
JournalCurator: The Museum Journal
Volume69
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2026

Keywords

  • Gender
  • Gender chronotechnology
  • Her-story turn
  • Illiberal museums
  • Museums
  • New museums

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