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Materialising the Cold War

冷战的具体化

基本信息

批准号：
AH/V001078/1
负责人：
Sam Alberti
金额：
$ 102.63万
依托单位：
National Museums Scotland
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2021 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV001078%2F1
关键词：
Materialising Cold War

项目摘要

Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in a climate of international tension, the Cold War is more relevant than ever. And yet a generation now has no experience of it, and its public history is uneven. The Cold War's character as an 'imaginary war' in the global north poses special challenges for public engagement, especially for exhibiting material objects in museums. Synthesising approaches from material culture studies and Cold War history, critical heritage studies and museum practice, our project analyses these challenges and proposes a new framework for a Cold War museology. We focus on the process we call 'materialising the Cold War': the transformation of artefacts from the immaterial context of the Cold War to material objects in museums.National Museums Scotland and the University of Stirling will apply these multi-disciplinary methods to co-produce a major exhibition and schools programming, and we will generate innovative resources and outputs for museum users, heritage professionals and academics. In addition, our project partners - Royal Air Force Museums, Imperial War Museums, the Norwegian Luftfartmuseum in Bodo, and the Allied Museum in Berlin - will benefit significantly from our findings and collaboration as they each develop major new galleries within the next decade (one motive in their participation); a powerful legacy for the project.Framed by this international context, Materialising the Cold War will ask of UK museum objects: why have they been collected? How are they displayed? How have people responded to this 'fearsome heritage' - those who remember the Cold War and those who don't, whether family museum visitors, school groups, or dedicated enthusiasts? Throughout, we emphasise the fundamentally unstable and contested nature of the ways in which Cold War objects are made to mean something, and the breadth of the emotional register they stimulate.Our project will therefore:- be the first critically to take stock of how different institutions in the UK have addressed the fundamental challenge of materialising the Cold War in the context of a museum;- build on this original knowledge to develop an analytical framework for materialising the Cold War;- develop new approaches to collecting and display;- and thus offer a timely conceptual and practical foundation for a developing field.Our multi-disciplinary research team will comprise Dr Sam Alberti, museologist and senior manager at National Museums Scotland (PI); University of Stirling Cold War historian Professor Holger Nehring (Co-I); two fixed-term researchers, one based at the University of Stirling and the other at National Museums Scotland; and a fractional administrative post at National Museum Scotland to support them. They will work co-productively with curators and learning officers at National Museums Scotland, heritage scholars at the University of Stirling and an existing AHRC CDP doctoral student supervised by the PI and Co-I. An Advisory Board drawn from the project partners and other experts in the heritage and HEI sector will contribute substantively. Within the museum collections this team will explore, physical traces of the Cold War manifest not only in the devices of destruction that perpetuated the nuclear stalemate, but also in the material culture of readiness and more subtly in the technologies of everyday life. From bombers to radiation detectors to peace badges, pertinent collections are scattered across the sector. As Cold War witnesses decline, there is now a timely opportunity to harness memories associated with these objects, to collect more, and thereby to enhance a broader understanding of the sheer scale of the conflict. This project will develop the first systematic analysis and assessment of Cold War heritage in museums and apply this original knowledge to museum practice.

在柏林围墙倒塌30年后，在国际紧张气氛中，冷战比以往任何时候都更有意义。然而，现在的一代人没有这种经历，其公共历史是不平衡的。冷战作为北半球“想象中的战争”的特点对公众参与构成了特殊的挑战，特别是在博物馆展出实物时。我们的项目综合了物质文化研究和冷战历史、批判性遗产研究和博物馆实践的方法，分析了这些挑战，并提出了一个冷战博物馆学的新框架。我们专注于我们称之为"物化冷战"的过程：将冷战时期的非物质背景下的文物转化为博物馆中的实物。苏格兰国家博物馆和斯特林大学将运用这些多学科方法共同制作一个大型展览和学校节目，我们将为博物馆用户，遗产专业人士和学者提供创新的资源和产出。此外，我们的项目合作伙伴--皇家空军博物馆、帝国战争博物馆、博多的挪威空军博物馆和柏林的盟军博物馆--将从我们的研究成果和合作中受益匪浅，因为它们都将在未来十年内开发新的大型画廊（参与的动机之一）;在这个国际背景下，物化冷战将询问英国博物馆的物品：为什么他们被收集？它们是如何显示的？人们对这一"可怕的遗产"有何反应--那些记得冷战的人和那些不记得冷战的人，无论是家庭博物馆的参观者、学校团体还是热心的爱好者？在整个过程中，我们强调冷战时期的物品被赋予某种意义的方式的根本不稳定和有争议的性质，以及它们所激发的情感领域的广度。因此，我们的项目将：-成为第一个批判性地评估英国不同机构如何在博物馆的背景下应对实现冷战的根本挑战的项目;-建立在这些原始知识的基础上，开发一个实现冷战的分析框架;我们的跨学科研究团队将包括苏格兰国家博物馆（PI）博物馆学家兼高级经理Sam Alberti博士，斯特林大学冷战历史学家Holger教授（Co-I），尼林（Co-I），两名定期研究人员，一名在斯特林大学，另一名在苏格兰国家博物馆;苏格兰国家博物馆有一个部分行政职位来支持他们。他们将与苏格兰国家博物馆的馆长和学习官员，斯特林大学的遗产学者以及PI和Co-I监督的现有AHRC CDP博士生合作。由项目合作伙伴和遗产及高等教育部门的其他专家组成的咨询委员会将作出实质性贡献。在这个团队将探索的博物馆藏品中，冷战的物理痕迹不仅体现在使核僵局永久化的破坏装置中，而且体现在准备就绪的物质文化中，更微妙的是体现在日常生活的技术中。从轰炸机到辐射探测器再到和平徽章，相关的收藏品分散在整个部门。随着冷战见证者的减少，现在有一个及时的机会来利用与这些物体相关的记忆，收集更多，从而加强对冲突规模的更广泛理解。该项目将首次对博物馆中的冷战遗产进行系统的分析和评估，并将这些原始知识应用于博物馆实践。