Deindustrialization and museumification: From exhibited memory to forgotten history
Author(s)
Date issued
2004
In
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
No
595
From page
122
To page
133
Abstract
This ethnographic study of the creation of a museum in Le Creusot (France) provides an analysis of the heritage industry that emerged in the wake of the demise of a family company around which the town was built. This museum was a reaction to the passing of an age when industrial and urban environments were intrinsically linked. Through this description of how the past is collected and recollected in a museum, this article attempts to determine if this duty of remembrance is not, to a certain extent, a staging of history fading into oblivion-our society's sole response to industrial regeneration?
Publication type
journal article