Published March 30, 2014 | Version v1
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Decolonising National Museums of Ethnography in Europe: Exposing and Reshaping Colonial Heritage (2000-2012)

  • 1. Université Paris-Sorbonne
  • 2. Université Paris-Est-Créteil

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The volume "The Postcolonial Museum" examines how we can conceive of a ‘postcolonial museum’ in the contemporary epoch of mass migrations, the internet and digital technologies. In particular, the essay by Felicity Bodenstein and Camilla Pagani focus on how museums reshape their colonial heritage using the museum as a space for recognition and historical reconciliation.

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MELA – European Museums in an Age of Migrations 266757
European Commission