Transforming Author Museums - From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs

Literary museums today must respond to new challenges; the traditional image of the author's home museum as a sacred place of literary pilgrimage centered around a national hero has been questioned, and literary museums have begun to develop new strategies centered not only on biography, but also literary texts, imagined spaces, different readers, historical contexts, architectural concepts, and artistic interventions. As this volume shows, the changing of spaces asks how literary museums create new ways of interlinking real and literary spaces, texts, objects, readers, and tourists.

About the author

Thea Aarbakke is a curator at the Women's Museum in Norway, situated in the former home of the writer Dagny Juel. During this book project she was a doctoral fellow at the University of Oslo/Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, and now holds a PhD in Museology. Her thesis is a study of contemporary exhibition practices at literary museums in Norway.

Product details

• Authors: Ulrike Schimanski Spring
• Assisted by: Thea Aarbakke (Editor), Johan Schimanski (Editor), Schimanski Johan (Editor), Ulrike Spring (Editor), Spring Ulrike (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781800732438
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-243-8
• No. of pages: 348
• Series: Museums and Collections
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; Cultural Studies, Biography: literary, ART / Museum Studies, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Museum Studies, Cultural Studies (General), Literary Studies