REFLECTION ON COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN THE MUSEUM

  • Олена Феліксівна Іванова Professor of the Department of General Psychology, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, 6 Svobody Sq., Kharkiv, Ukraine, 61022 http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6130-3342
Keywords: museum, Holocaust, visitors, comments, discourse

Abstract

The article describes visitors’ interpretation and understanding of the narrative about the Holocaust in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Visitors comments were the material for the analysis, used methodology was discourse analysis. Different discourses were singled out in visitors’ comments. Differences between visitors’ comments given in different years were ascertained. Age differences and differences among narratives of various groups of the Museum visitors were shown. It can be concluded that the Museum fulfills various functions. Besides being a place of commemoration, it accomplishes its educational function and serves as a source of information about the Holocaust.

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2020-11-18
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How to Cite
Іванова, О. Ф. (2020). REFLECTION ON COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN THE MUSEUM. The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. A Series of «Psychology», (68), 37-42. https://doi.org/10.26565/2225-7756-2020-68-05