Exhibiting Holden

Best practice and practical problems in a national motor museum

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10248716
AutoresJennifer Clark (0000-0003-4008-5419, The University of Adelaide, autor de correspondencia), Michelangelo Bolognese (National Motor Museum of Australia, Australia), Carolyn Collins (0000-0003-2268-3546, The University of Adelaide)
Año2024
Volumen45
Número2
Páginas384-404
Fecha de publicación2024-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Transport History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-5266 • E-ISSN: 1759-3999
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00225266241257684
OpenAlexW4399684684
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas19

Holden is arguably the most important vehicle brand in Australian transport history. As a result, it is intimately tied to the cultural, social and economic history of the nation. This paper discusses the tension that emerges, and the issues faced when trying to bring Holden, and all it represents, into the museum space and tell its complex story to a diverse and changing public audience. The task has been magnified, facilitated and made more urgent since the closure of the last Australian Holden manufacturing plant in 2017. Now that Holden is more realistically identified with a defined historical period, this article explores how the National Motor Museum of Australia (NMM) represents that history through thoughtful and appropriate museological practice

Aesthetics · Art · Closure (psychology · Cultural history · Media studies · Political science · Public history · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Visual arts · Anthropology · Australian History and Society · Computer Science · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage