Museums and the Act of Witnessing

Museums and the Act of Witnessing examines how representations of traumatic histories and the legacies of the twentieth century in museums and heritage sites across the world shape political, social and cultural identities.

Ross J. Wilson is Director of Liberal Arts at the University of Nottingham in the UK.

1. Introduction; 2. Eyewitness: being present and seeing things for ourselves; 3. Expert Witnesses: understanding the past; 4. Character Witnesses and Testimonies; 5. Lay Witnesses and the Radical Witness; 6. Conclusion