Visitor experience at Holocaust memorials and museums. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Diana I. Popescu.
• Editors: Popescu, Diana
• Contents: Introduction: Visitors at Holocaust Museums and Memory sites; Part I: Visitor Experience in Museum Spaces; 1. Mobile Memory; or What Visitors Saw at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; 2. Visitor Emotions, Experientiality, Holocaust, and Human Rights: TripAdvisor Responses to the Topography of Terror (Berlin) and the Kazerne Dossin (Mechelen); 3. "Really made you feel for the Jews who went through this terrible time in History" Holocaust Audience Re-mediation and Re-narrativization at the Florida Holocaust Museum; 4. Understanding Visitors’ Bodily Engagement with Holocaust Museum Architecture: A Comparative Empirical Research at three European Museums; 5. Attention Please: The Tour Guide is Here to Speak Out. The Role of the Israeli Tour Guide at Holocaust Sites in Israel; 6. The Impact of Emotions, Empathy, and Memory in Holocaust exhibitions: A Study of the National Holocaust Centre & Museum in Nottinghamshire, and the Jewish Museum in London; 7. The Affective Entanglements of the Visitor Experience at Holocaust Sites and Museums; Part II: Digital Engagement Inside and Outside the Museum and Memory Site; 8. "…It no longer is the same place": Exploring Realities in the Memorial Falstad Centre with the ‘Falstad Digital Reconstruction and V/AR Guide’; 9. "Ways of seeing". Visitor response to Holocaust Photographs at ‘The Eye as Witness: Recording the Holocaust’ Exhibition; 10. Dachau from a Distance: The Liberation during The COVID-19 Pandemic; 11. Curating the Past: Digital Media and Visitor Experiences at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe; 11 Diversity, Digital Programming, and the Small Holocaust Education Centre: Examining Paths and Obstacles to Visitor Experience; Part III: Visitors at Former Camp Sites; 12. The Unanticipated Visitor: A Case Study of Response and Poetry at Sites of Holocaust Memory; 13. "Did you have a good trip?" Young people’s Reflections on Visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and the Town of Oświęcim; 14. Rewind, Relisten, Rethink: The Value of Audience Reception for Grasping Art’s Efficacy; 15. "The value of being there" -Visitor Experiences at German Holocaust Memorial Sites; 16. "Everyone Talks About the Wind": Temporality, Climate, and the More-than Representational Landscapes of the Mémorial du Camp de Rivesaltes; 17. Guiding or Obscuring? Visitor Engagement with Treblinka’s Audio Guide and Its Sonic Infrastructure; 18. Guiding or Obscuring? Visitor Engagement with Treblinka’s Audio Guide and Its Sonic Infrastructure.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 940.531864; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Museums; Holocaust memorials -- Social aspects; Historical museums -- Attitudes; Historical museums -- Psychological aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000789935; 9781000789706
• Related ISBNs: 9781032115870
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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