Dream Spaces

Memory and the Museum

By: Gaynor Kavanagh

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Hardcover | 1 April 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Bringing together theory from disparate fields, including behavioural gerontology, counselling and therapy, applied psychology and historiography, and drawing on research from the UK, the USA and Europe, this is a multi-faceted study of memory and the museum. It explores what Sheldon Annis referred to as the "dream space", the non-rational, affective and reflective experience of encountering material and ourselves within the museum and, for the purpose of this book, within the processes and procedures of making history in museums. It examines the theory of "dream space" in the context of the practical world of museums where so many of the issues of memory, the life span and their connections are brought into sharp focus. The book has four parts: the relationship of memory to history and the changing place of memory within historiographic and museological theory; the dynamics of memory and its employment in the construction of social knowledge of the past through the medium of exhibitions - in essence, memory as product; the experience of remembering in the museum or through access to museum collections -that is memory as process; and the interplay of product and process experienced in the visit and in educational activities.

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"Drawing on research from a number of fields, from behavioral gerontology to historiography, Dream Spaces is a multifaceted look at memory in the history of the museum." Museum News

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Acknowledgements
Dream spaces, memories and museums	p. 1
What is memory?	p. 9
Remembering and forgetting	p. 16
Memory and life stages	p. 24
Memory in late life	p. 35
Remembering and the society of others	p. 41
The art of listening	p. 47
Oral history and museums	p. 57
Recording memories	p. 68
Working with testimony	p. 79
Dynamics of interviewing	p. 87
Collections of objects, or memories?	p. 98
Collecting memories and objects	p. 108
Reminiscence and the older adult	p. 117
Working with reminiscence	p. 127
Working with the memory bearers	p. 133
Bearing witness	p. 141
Memories, dream spaces and the visit	p. 148
Dreaming the rational	p. 158
Memory spaces, dreams and museums	p. 170
Bibliography	p. 176
Name Index	p. 190
Subject Index	p. 195
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