Museum Times

Changing Histories in South Africa

Leslie Witz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

300 Seiten

2022
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-538-5 (ISBN)

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Museums flourished in post-apartheid South Africa. In older museums, there were renovations on the go, and at least fifty new museums opened. Most sought to depict violence and suffering under apartheid and the growth of resistance. These unlikely journeys are tracked as museums became a primary setting for contesting histories. From the renowned Robben Island Museum to the almost unknown Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum, the author demonstrates how an institution concerned with the conservation of the past is simultaneously a site for changing history.

Leslie Witz is a professor in the Department of History at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. He teaches African history and public history, and his research focuses on how different histories are created and represented in the public domain. Publications include Apartheid’s Festival; Hostels, Homes Museum (with Noëleen Murray); and Unsettled History (with Ciraj Rassool and Gary Minkley).

List of illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction: Changing museums, reshaping histories

Chapter 1. Remaking the chameleon: A history of history in South African museums

Chapter 2. History on the beach: Making a museum home in Lwandle

Chapter 3. History at sea: Re-making a museum of eventless history

Chapter 4. A new hippo for a new nation: The journey of a museum ‘across the frontier’ in post-apartheid South Africa

Chapter 5. The museum, the rabbit and national history: The voice of Robben Island

Chapter 6. ‘We are sick of Van Riebeeck, Van Riebeeck. We want to know our history’: Y350? and the re-making of settler histories in post-apartheid times

Conclusion: Museums closing and opening

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	16.05.2022
Reihe/Serie	Museums and Collections
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-80073-538-3 / 1800735383
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-538-5 / 9781800735385
Zustand	Neuware