This vibrant new collection edited by Viviane Gosselin and Phaedra Livingstone explores the central role of museums as memory keepers and makers. The idea of hi

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Every year 100 million visitor's tour historic houses and re-created villages, examine museum artifacts, and walk through battlefields. But what do they learn?

Panama is an ethnically diverse country with a recent history of political conflict which makes the representation of historical memory an especially complex an