[Commlist] New book: The Memorial Museum in the Digital Age

New at REFRAME Books: The Memorial Museum in the Digital Age

*Edited by Victoria Grace Walden*

Download/ read here: 
https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/the-memorial-museum-in-the-digital-age/ 
<https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/the-memorial-museum-in-the-digital-age/>

ISBN: 978-1-7395820-0-5 (PDF). Falmer: REFRAME Books, 2022.

REFRAME books is delighted to present the new open access, edited 
collection */The Memorial Museum in the Digital Age/*. Edited by 
Victoria Grace Walden, /The Memorial Museum in the Digital Age**/is the 
first comprehensive review of thinking and practice related to the 
effects and affects of the digital for memorial museums. These 
commemorative and educational spaces have traditionally contained 
object-heavy displays to stand-in for people, cultures and things that 
have been destroyed. What then happens when collected material evidence 
is presented to visitors/ users in digitalised forms – distanced from 
the material proximity offered at so-called ‘authentic sites’? Whilst 
memorial museums have often been celebrated for their commemorative and 
educative agendas, they are also political and tend to reiterate 
museological logics deeply embedded in problematic histories of 
arranging cultural objects and identities. Can digital technologies 
offer the potential to rearrange or resituate the memorial museum into 
activist spaces? Can going online disrupt the national memory politics 
that commonly characterise memorial museums, or does it enable more of 
the same? These are some of the questions that interest the contributors 
of this collection.

Whilst there is a growing number of publications interested in museums 
and the digital, the specificity of the memorial museum is understudied. 
Yet, it raises particular concerns relating to preservation, 
materiality, ethics, and absence that require careful consideration in 
relation to the digital. After a theoretical consideration of what the 
memorial museum is and could be in this ‘digital age’, this book offers 
a series of case studies written by curators, artists, and academics 
covering memorial museum examples in North America, South America, 
Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Download the book here for free from the 12th December 2022: 
https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/the-memorial-museum-in-the-digital-age/ 
<https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/the-memorial-museum-in-the-digital-age/>

You can also follow REFRAME site Digital Holocaust Memory for related 
research and updates on the project: 
https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalholocaustmemory/ 
<https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalholocaustmemory/>

REFRAME is an open access academic digital publishing platform for the 
online practice and curation of internationally produced research and 
scholarship. Its subject specialisms—spanning media, film, music, 
critical theory, english literature, history, cultural studies and 
journalism — are also those of its facilitator, the School of Media, 
Arts and Humanities (MAH) at the University of Sussex, UK. 
https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/ <https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/>

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