The Colonial Past as “Usable History”

Abstract

As colonial institutions that were historically used to legitimize imagined national mythologies (Anderson, 1991), museums might seem like unlikely spaces for critical discussions of colonial history. Amy Lonetree has argued that few museums in North America effectively address the impacts of colonialism in their exhibitions (2009), while visitor survey findings suggest that institutions that try to address them are still struggling to communicate them to visitors. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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