By Corinne Brenko, MA and Urška Purg National Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia Introduction Thirty years after Slovenia’s independence from Yugoslavia, the National Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia started to work with a participatory approach, aiming to shed light on the personal narratives of people who migrated to Slovenia from the other Yugoslav...Read More

By Elina Nygård, Ájtte, Swedish Mountain and Sámi Museum Ájtte, Swedish Mountain and Sámi Museum in Jåhkåmåhkke wishes to share insights into the process of curating and building exhibitions about a sensitive subject for a minority. The museum opened in 1989 and tells the Sámi history, from the melting of the inland ice until now. Ever...Read More

By Søren La Cour Jensen, MA Ivalo Katrine Birthe Foget Olsvig, MA  Through interviews with Greenlandic people and people with a Greenlandic background (herein collectively referred to as Greenlanders) in Denmark, we investigate how they experience life in Denmark and the interaction with the majority Danish population. To learn more about this, interviews with 15...Read More

“Keep it quiet! Family secrets in the aftermath of WWII” Long-term consequences of WWII in Norway, and its repercussions within some families.  Kathrin Pabst, PhD, project leader Vest-Agder Museum The project background and starting point Between 1940 and 1945 some 500,000 German soldiers were temporarily deployed to Norway in order to occupy a country whose...Read More

By Kathrin Pabst, Ph.D., project leader Introduction “Secrets are always more dangerous than stories,” said a psychologist to us partners in Identity on the Line, when we were afraid of re-traumatizing our informants while asking about their memories of a troubled past. Some of us reacted strongly to the narratives we had heard and the...Read More