Musealisierte Zeitzeugen. Ein Dilemma

Abstract

Once the aura of three-dimensional objects attracted strollers to museums and exhibitions. But it is precisely in the field of contemporary history that the temples of the muses are changing from places of aesthetic experience to mediatized narrative spaces in which the museum tourist makes his way through the jungle of audio stations and video projections. Snippets of contemporary witnesses create the illusion of polyphonic memory(s). Not infrequently, however, they make critical distancing more difficult and re-stage the “boundaries of the sayable”.