Archondia Polyzoudi

The Display of Archaeology in Museums of Northern Greece: The Socio-politics and Poetics of Museum Narratives Archondia Polyzoudi

"This study takes an interest in exploring Greek museum representations of the past in relation to the intellectual histories of the archaeological accounts involved in the investigation of material culture. It is argued within this work that museum is place of power and a forum in which the knowledge of the past is created, interpreted and presented to the public and re-presented and re-interpreted due to the multiple narratives created by multiple recipients and heritage consumers. Also, this study is concerned with a thorough discussion examining how and by whom the action of 'making meaning', 'story-telling' or 'narrating past histories' is produced in archaeological discourses and museum representations; and what kinds of relationships and networkings are created by this process. The critical analysis of the museum exhibitions of case studies is carried out by examining the museum as institution, as architecture and as narrative, as a way of seeking to understand its multiple roles, educational, historical, symbolic, in modern society, which serve as social formulations of socio-cultural knowledge"--