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

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

*New edited collection: /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.

Open access academic publishing platform REFRAME 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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