Museums, Nations, and Tourism:
Transnational Perspectives
SCASSS Swedish Collegium for the Advanced Study of the Social Sciences, Uppsala
February 26-28, 1999
This guide includes links to sites or parts of the world that relate to the research interests of the participants and topics of the formal presentations.
Resources
Tourist Productions course at New York University--full syllabus, readings, and links: http://www.nyu.edu/classes/tourist/
Go directly to the Tourist Productions bibliographies and readings, including full texts of articles: http://www.nyu.edu/classes/tourist/readings.html
Museum Theatre course at New York University (1999): http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/museum.html
ICOM Museums on the Web: http://www.icom.org/vlmp/
Articles Online
Tony Bennett, Pedagogic Objects, Clean Eyes, and Popular Instruction: On SensoryRegimes and Museum Didactics, Configurations 6.3 (1998) 345-371 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v006/6.3bennett.html
Selling the Past/Co-opting History: Colonial Williamsburg as Republican Disneyland, a review essay by Marguerite S. Shaffer of The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg. By Richard Handler and Eric Gable. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 1997. American Quarterly 50.4 (1998) 875-884 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_quarterly/v050/50.4br_handler.html
Interfacing American Culture: The Perils and Potentials of Virtual Exhibitions, exhibition review by David Silver, American Quarterly 49.4 (1997) 825-850 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_quarterly/v049/49.4er_folklore.html
Captivating Memories: Museology, Concentration Camps, and Japanese American History, exhibition review by David Yoo http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_quarterly/v048/48.4pr_janm.htm
Voices in the Museum, review of the controversial Enola Gay exhibition by Alex Roland Technology and Culture 39.3 (1998) 483-488 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v039/39.3roland.html
Christopher B. Balme, Staging the Pacific: Framing Authenticity in Performances for Tourists at the Polynesian Cultural Center. Theatre Journal 50.1 (1998) 53-70 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theatre_journal/v050/50.1balme.html
Sites of Special Interest
Polynesian Cultural Center http://www.polynesia.com/
Jean-Marie TJIBAOU Cultural Centre, New Caledonia http://www.noumea.com/neacom/jmtjag.htm
National Museum of Australia http://www.nma.gov.au/
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/default.html
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akaKurdistan: A Place for Collective Memory and Cultural Exchange, by Susan Meiselas http://www.akakurdistan.com/
Interactive Museum of Turkey http://interactive.m2.org/
Istanbul Museums http://ieiris.cc.boun.edu.tr/ftp/pub/ie120/proj/sazoglu&gunduz/istanbul/museum.htm
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Mashantuckett Pequot and Research Center, Connecticut http://www.mashantucket.com/index1.html
National Museum of the American Indian http://www.si.edu/nmai/
Canadian Museum of Civilization http://www.civilization.ca/
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum http://www.wnet.org/archive/tenement/index.html
Ellis Island http://www.nps.gov/stli/serv02.htm and http://www.libertystatepark.com/ellis.htm
Santa Fe Online http://www.sfol.com/sfol/santafe/aboutsf.html
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Nordisk Museologi http://www.umu.se/nordic.museology/
National Board of Antiquities, Finland http://www.nba.fi/Siseng.html
Museums in Sweden http://www.icom.org/vlmp/sweden.html
Museums of Russia http://www.museum.ru/defengl.htm
Museums of Azerbaijan http://www.culture.az/museum_e.htm
1002 Situations ("What defines your 'homeland' [Heimat]?"), Castle Tollet, Austria http://fgidec1.tuwien.ac.at/1002situations/
Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb (full text of catalog for current exhibition online) http://www.artplus.hr/muo/
Teylers Museum, Amsterdam http://www.teylersmuseum.nl/engels/hal.html
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Jordan National Information System http://www.nic.gov.jo/
Jordan Tourist Information http://www.mota.gov.jo/
Turab (Turath Al-Urdun Al-Baqi-the Everlasting Heritage of Jordan) http://www.accessme.com/turab/about.htm
Jordan Today: Tourism, Culture, Entertainment http://corp.arabia.com/JordanToday/
ArabiaCulture http://www.arabia.com/culture/
Palestine Information Center http://www.nps.gov/stli/serv02.htm
now.culture.palestine http://www.palestine-online.com/culture/
Al-Mashriq-role of archeology in reconstruction of Beirut (full text of articles http://almashriq.hiof.no/base/archaeology.html
Atour: The State of Assyria http://www.atour.com/welcome.html
Assyria on the Move http://www.ozemail.com.au/~hshemon/Main.html
Egypt State Information Service, includes museums in Egypt http://www.us.sis.gov.eg/egyptinf/culture/html/index.htm
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Cyber Barrio--Guillermo Gomez-Pena, James Luna, Roberto Sifuentes http://riceinfo.rice.edu/projects/CyberVato/
Museum of Jurassic Technology http://www.mjt.org/
Crimes of the Wehrmacht exhibition http://www.icc.de/wehrmachtsausstellung/
Remembering Nagasaki http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/
Museum of African American History http://www.maah-detroit.org
Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide, Phnom Penh http://www.asiatour.com/cambodia/e-03phno/ec-phn20.htm
Other museums in Cambodia http://www.asiatohur.com/cambodia/e-03phno/ec-phn23.htm
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Beijing Historical Museums http://china-window.com/beijing/tour/museum/
Museums in Taiwan http://www.sinica.edu.tw/tit/museums/
Museums in Hong Kong http://www.hkta.org/sightseeing/museums/
Museum of Macau http://www.macaumuseum.gov.mo/
National Heritage Board, Singapore http://www.museum.org.sg/
Museum of Chinese in the Americas http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~chin/mca/info.html
Citizens against Communist Chinese Propaganda http://www.afn.org/~afn20372/pol/caccp.html
Please send interesting links to:
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Department of Performance Studies
New York University
721 Broadway, 6th fl
New York, NY 10003
212-998-1628 tel
212-254-7885 fax
bk3@is.nyu.edu