How Do Municipal Museums Construct City Identity? Seoul Museum of History and Bursa City Museum
Koç University Center for Asian Studies
As part of KUASIA's Spring 2021 Webinar Series, Emek Yılmaz gave this talk on 15 April 2021.
Abstract
Museums have been used as mediums for constructing and conveying identity by authorities. Based on participant observation and interviews at the Bursa City Museum, interviews with head of departments at the Seoul Museum of History and a survey with visitors at both museums, this presentation discusses how two city museums in post-industrial settings, as municipal governments' agencies, carry out identity construction, how these impact museum narratives and how both museum works are perceived by visitors. Bursa City Museum of the Bursa Metropolitan Municipality, governed by the conservative Justice and Development Party (AKP), highlights the Ottoman period due to its political stance with regard to Ottoman and Republican histories. On the other hand, exhibitions of the Seoul Museum of History of the Seoul Metropolitan Municipality, governed by the liberal Democratic Party (DP), highlight lifestyles and social classes of different periods, Korean independence movements, and the development efforts after the Korean War. Despite these differences, both museums construct national identity by a selective emphasis on certain periods in their permanent exhibitions.
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