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Memorial museum as a “Perfect End”: reimagining memorial museums through split and continuum

Cha, Jimin, Cha
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1543411432609966

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2018, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Arts Administration, Education and Policy.
This study investigates memorial museums as a place of continuum by exposing the disconnection in museum studies. Thus, while the current studies define memorial museums as institutions that establish societal cohesion through collective feeling, identity, memory, value, etc.—alignment—my research discusses the un-alignment that remained overlooked. Also, unlike the existing scholarship on memorial museums that examine museum experiences only within the museum space, my study expands the scope of visitors’ experiences from museum to society. Through this expansion, my research connects museum visits to the past and present by taking into account that visitors enter the museum from the present to encounter the past—the displayed atrocity—and eventually return back to the present when they leave the museum. This element of connecting the past to present in the museum experience is what separates my research from the prevalent trend of museum studies and is a unique aspect that renders my work significant. By recognizing the museum visit as a continuous event, this research inspects whether the discrepancy between what is promised in memorial museums—“Never Again”—and the reality that doesn’t reciprocate this message is resulted by the fragmented understanding on visitors’ experiences. Thus, my study acknowledges that a museum visit is not an experience that exists in isolation and disconnection from the present but is a continuum between the past and present with the potential to influence the future. Therefore, through a case study on the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile, this study attempts to reconsider memorial museums by engaging museum studies with theories of Feminism and Post-structuralism along with visitor interviews and aspires to suggest a new path that can lead the museums and societies in a new direction.
Wayne Lawson (Advisor)
Nancy Ettlinger (Committee Member)
Candace Stout (Committee Member)
Joni Acuff (Committee Member)
299 p.
Art Education; Comparative; Comparative Literature; Museum Studies; Museums

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  • Cha, Cha, J. (2018). Memorial museum as a “Perfect End”: reimagining memorial museums through split and continuum [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1543411432609966

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cha, Cha, Jimin. Memorial museum as a “Perfect End”: reimagining memorial museums through split and continuum . 2018. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1543411432609966.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cha, Cha, Jimin. "Memorial museum as a “Perfect End”: reimagining memorial museums through split and continuum ." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1543411432609966

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