记忆之场:博物馆叙事与展演——以伦敦帝国战争博物馆为例

Site of Memory: A Museum Narrative and Performance Case Study of the Imperial War Museum in London

博物馆不仅是展品的展演场所,更是以材料、场所为支点,重新联结个体生命记忆和历史叙事的记忆之场。伦敦帝国战争博物馆一方面通过藏品的展示还原了战争中鲜活、生动的个体记忆,与传统的民族—国家历史集体叙事形成互动。另一方面,博物馆以场所内诸多要素和群体共同构成的记忆之场为支点,连接过去与现在的记忆。本文以伦敦帝国战争博物馆为例,从物质性、时间性、空间性三个角度,反思战争博物馆如何通过构建记忆之场超越民族—国家的宏大叙事,转而通过个体生命的记忆重新思考战争的本质。

Museums are not only places for the display of exhibits,but also places with materials,materials and places as fulcrum,reconnecting the memory of individual life and historical narrative.The Imperial War Museum in London,on the one hand,restores vivid individual memories of the war through the display of objects,and interacts with the traditional collective narrative of nation-state history.On the other hand,the museum hopes to realize the dialogue between the past and the present through the memory site composed of many elements and groups within the site as a fulcrum.Taking the Imperial War Museum as an example,this paper reflects on how the war museum transcends the grand narrative of nation-state by constructing the site of memory through three dimensions of materiality,timeliness and space,and then reconsiders the nature of war through the memory of individual life.