What is it about?
The Jewish Museum Berlin faces the challenge of providing a meaningful space and experience for a wide variety of visitors and memories. This paper looks at how the museum addresses this challenge taking into account changing perspectives of both national and international visitors, attitudes to the physical architectural environment and the role of a memory museum in the twenty-first century.
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Why is it important?
Our paper shows that attitudes to Jewish history in Germany are fluid and reflect both internal changes within German society, the reduction in the number of living Holocaust survivors, and the increased work of memory museums internationally. Taking the lens of generational translation defined through the concept of entangled memory shows how the museum uses both its unique architectural space and a clear mission to provide a meaningful space and experience for visitors. This research shows the challenge of fulfilling the public demand for memory in a manner enhancing individual reflection.
Perspectives
This research was both enjoyable and complex as it really highlighted the challenge of pleasing all the people all of the time in memory museum work. The fact that each museum is unique and each visitor became ever more evident, but also extensive writing and research really showed how much space impacts our experiences and reflections and the importance of public buildings and institutions like the Jewish Museum Berlin taking this into account beyond the actual artefacts shown.
Clare Hindley
IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany
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This page is a summary of: Generational translation in the Jewish Museum, Berlin, Babel Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation / Revista Internacional de Traducción, May 2024, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/babel.00394.hin.
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