Curating implication at the public history museum

Holbæk’s Museum’s West Zealand and the West Indies

Bibliographic Data

ID12905685
AuthorsDoron Eldar (0009-0006-3797-6543, Uppsala University, corresponding author)
Year2025
Publication date2025-07-31
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMemory Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/17506980251359593
OpenAlexW4412807835
LanguageEN
References cited17

To assume responsibility for perpetuating legacies of historical violence, argues Michael Rothberg, subjects need to know how they are implicated in these legacies. Public history museums can play a central role in the task of revealing to visitors their modes of implication. Since they serve “the public” however, they encounter visitors with very different modes of implication to reveal. This article examines this challenge and ways to tackle it using the case of Holbæk Museum’s West Zealand and the West Indies . The exhibit provides a good opportunity to examine this challenge given its effort to reveal how an area unimplicated in common narratives about Danish colonialism is deeply entangled with the history of the Danish slave trade and enslavement in the Caribbean

Archaeology · Ethnology · Geography · North west · Physical geography · Sociology · West coast · West indies · Anthropology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Geology · Oceanography

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