BETWEEN MUSEUM, MONUMENT AND MEMORIAL: DANIEL LIBESKIND’S JEWISH MUSEUM IN BERLIN (1999)
Abstract
The main hypothesis of this paper is that Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin is moving between museum, monument and memorial, that is, that this musuem is ‘place of memory’ (lieu de mémoire). Using Pierre Nora’s concept lieu de mémoire as the starting point of this study and redefining this concept through the language of architecture, the main aim of this paper is to explore this architectural object in the frames of cultural studies. The central foci of this paper are not thus artistic (productional, technical, stylist, etc.) prob-lems as specifics of autonomous world of arts, but prob-lems of locating architecture within culture and repre-senting procedures of culture within architecture. Through aesthetics of architecture this paper explores problems of representation and construction of cultural mechanism, relations between culture and power, rep-resentation and construction of Jewish ethnical identity. As cultural studies is a heterogeneous field, this paper connects the following: theory of reception, narratology, cultural anthropology, curator practices, ethnology, and finally theory of performativityReferences
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[14] Turner, V.(1989). Od rituala do teatra, Zagreb, Hrvatska
How to Cite
PJEšIVAC, Željka.
BETWEEN MUSEUM, MONUMENT AND MEMORIAL: DANIEL LIBESKIND’S JEWISH MUSEUM IN BERLIN (1999).
Култура/Culture, [S.l.], n. 8, p. 101-109, mar. 2015.
ISSN 1857-7725.
Available at: <https://journals.cultcenter.net/index.php/culture/article/view/119>. Date accessed: 02 mar. 2026.
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Keywords
place of memory, museum, monument, memo-rial, the Jewish Museum in Berlin
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