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argued that: "To create a national history museum that discards unitary national narratives as well as causal trajectories (the teleology of the nation)—in effect to subvert the form—is probably impossible". One concern of national history museums, therefore, is how to fairly and neutrally depict negative periods in a nation's own history.
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employed the museum as a deliberate tool of propaganda and 'public education'". It has further been argued that "the very idea of an officially sponsored national history museum is simply outdated" in light of the trend towards pluralistic interpretation of artifacts. On the other hand, it has been
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during his reign, other countries began to use museums not just to store artifacts of aesthetic or educational value, but to portray the country itself in a positive light.
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Historically, some national history museums have been used purely as propaganda tools through which governments attempt to convey an official history. For example, "the
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Swann, Marjorie (2001), Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
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Paul Ashton, Paula Hamilton, "Unfinished Business", in Daniel J. Walkowitz, Lisa Maya Knauer, eds.,
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United City, Divided Memories?: Cold War Legacies in Contemporary Berlin
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Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation
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Index

National History Museum
history museum
nation
Ashmolean Museum
Oxford
Louvre Museum
Paris
natural history
art
Napoleon
national pride
Nazi regime
Canadian Museum of History
Hungarian National Museum
Trebišov
National Museum of China
Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh
Museo Histórico Nacional (Chile)
Museo Nacional de Historia
National History Museum (Malaysia)
National Historical Museum (Albania)
National Historical Museum (Argentina)
National Historical Museum (Brazil)
National Historical Museum (Bulgaria)
National Historical Museum (Greece)
National Historical Museum of Ukraine
National Museum of American History
St Fagans National History Museum
List of national museums
List of museums

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