Taming War - Contemporary display strategies and modes of visitor perception in military history museums

驯服战争——军事历史博物馆的当代展示策略和参观者感知模式

• 批准号: 426340978
• 负责人: Dr. Christopher Sommer
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Materielle Kultur
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/426340978?language=en
• 关键词: Taming; War; Contemporary; display; strategies

With a plethora of commemorative services, performances and exhibitions the centennial of the First World War found its end, but the effects on the museum landscape remain: a renewed interest in military history produced new strategies of display that aim on establishing military history museums as an environment where the human condition and current geopolitical developments can be discussed. Central to these developments is the literal scale of war: the museum diorama has a surprising comeback. Instead of attempting the impossible - to recreate experiences of war - dioramas are used in combination with new technologies and large scale exhibits to create affective experiential spaces that promote discussion and contemplation of war and violence. At the same time these museums are under constant political pressure and can implement new display strategies only slowly and over a long time due to financial constraints. Nevertheless it is not well understood how visitors perceive these new strategies of display that employ the updated diorama in combination with large scale exhibits and new technology such as augmented reality. In addition the motivation and role of curators, modelers and other actors in these developments is largely unknown. Accordingly it is impossible to say if these new strategies of display are successful without further enquiry. There is always the danger that visitors and curators alike slip back into traditional perceptions and modes of display that simply see the diorama as a pseudo-realistic reconstruction of war experiences. The project wants to elucidate these aspects through qualitative visitor interviews that focus on the perception, effect and affective potential of this new form of exhibiting war. At the same time interviews with curators, designers and modelers are an important aspect of this international research project that spans three countries (England, New Zealand and Germany) and ten museums, ranging from small local institutions to large national museum. All of them use dioramas, miniatures and large scale exhibits in their displays. Few studies of military history museums make use of such an approach that combines qualitative narrative interviews with different museum actors, a gap this project wants to address.Contrary to comparable studies the project not only relies on conventional interviewing techniques such as narrative face-to-face interviews or focus groups, but also embraces non-verbal interviewing techniques such as Personal Meaning Maps, participatory professional wargames and Lego Serious Play sessions to supplement and expand methodologies of museum visitor research. This approach engenders a deeper understanding of the musealization of war and its effects on visitors as well as the actors behind the scenes.

随着大量的纪念服务，表演和展览，第一次世界大战的百年纪念活动结束了，但对博物馆景观的影响仍然存在：对军事历史的重新兴趣产生了新的展示策略，旨在将军事历史博物馆建立为一个可以讨论人类状况和当前地缘政治发展的环境。这些发展的核心是战争的字面规模：博物馆的立体模型有一个令人惊讶的回归。而不是试图不可能的-重建战争的经验-立体模型与新技术和大型展览相结合，创造情感体验空间，促进讨论和思考战争和暴力。与此同时，这些博物馆不断受到政治压力，由于财政限制，只能缓慢地、长期地实施新的展示战略。然而，目前还不清楚游客如何看待这些新的展示策略，这些策略采用更新的立体模型与大型展览和增强现实等新技术相结合。此外，策展人、模型制作者和其他参与者在这些发展中的动机和作用在很大程度上是未知的。因此，如果不进一步调查，就不可能说这些新的展示策略是否成功。参观者和策展人都有回到传统观念和展示模式的危险，即简单地将立体模型视为对战争经历的伪现实主义重建。该项目希望通过定性的访问者访谈来阐明这些方面，重点关注这种新形式的展览战争的感知，效果和情感潜力。与此同时，与策展人，设计师和建模师的访谈是这个国际研究项目的一个重要方面，该项目跨越三个国家（英国，新西兰和德国）和十个博物馆，从小型地方机构到大型国家博物馆。他们都使用立体模型，微缩模型和大型展品在他们的显示。很少有军事历史博物馆的研究使用这种方法，结合定性叙事采访不同的博物馆演员，一个差距，本项目希望解决。与可比研究相反，本项目不仅依赖于传统的采访技术，如叙事面对面访谈或焦点小组，但也拥抱非语言采访技术，如个人意义地图，参与式专业战争游戏和乐高严肃游戏会议，以补充和扩大博物馆游客研究的方法。这种方法使人们更深入地了解战争的博物馆化及其对游客和幕后行为者的影响。