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