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— "Remembrance of Things: How Museums and Memory Shape One Another." Material Matters (Smithsonian Material Cultural Forum), issue 54 (2006). (PDF file) Cultural institutions provide key public spaces where a community's shared memories are presented and conserved. Increasingly, museums, historical societies, cultural centers, and monument sites also are becoming instrumental in coordinating and leading the public processes through which shared narratives of disaster are created. These partnerships between cultural institutions and communities often are difficult. A powerful articulation of why the responsibility for building strong, responsive relationships between communities and cultural institutions is so important is provided here by Alice Greenwald, director of the Memorial Museum, World Trade Center Foundation and former director of Education and Programs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. These relationships will be even more critical if some New Orleanians stay in long-term diaspora because, if relationships are effectively established and maintained, local cultural institutions can serve as centers for a national community. |
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