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September 11: Museums, spontaneous memorial and history
James Gardner, National Museum of American History, Washington DC
13 September 2010
James Gardner discusses museum responses to the spontaneous memorials following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US. He looks at tensions between memorialising, collecting and interpreting historic events. Also forthcoming in Grassroots Memorials.
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