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Museums & Social Issues
A Journal of Reflective Discourse
Volume 14, 2019 - Issue 1-2
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The balancing act. Museums as spaces for democratic debate: a case study from Oslo, Norway

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Figure 1. Text panels from Typical. Photo: Martine Scheen Jahnsen.

Figure 1. Text panels from Typical. Photo: Martine Scheen Jahnsen.

Figure 2. The art installation the “Jungle of Prejudice”. Photo: Martine Scheen Jahnsen.

Figure 2. The art installation the “Jungle of Prejudice”. Photo: Martine Scheen Jahnsen.

Figure 3. The art installation “There is no but” by Thierry Geoffroy. Photo: Martine Scheen Jahnsen.

Figure 3. The art installation “There is no but” by Thierry Geoffroy. Photo: Martine Scheen Jahnsen.

Figure 4. Detail from the room “FEAR.” The front page reads “Islamic extremists are hunting Norwegians”. Photo: Martine Scheen Jahnsen.

Figure 4. Detail from the room “FEAR.” The front page reads “Islamic extremists are hunting Norwegians”. Photo: Martine Scheen Jahnsen.

Figure 5. Four small rooms explore prejudice in connection to different feelings. Photo: Martine Scheen Jahnsen.

Figure 5. Four small rooms explore prejudice in connection to different feelings. Photo: Martine Scheen Jahnsen.

Figure 6. “The archive” in FOLK. Photo: Håkon Bergseth/Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology.

Figure 6. “The archive” in FOLK. Photo: Håkon Bergseth/Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology.

Figure 7. Photos from fieldtrips done during the 1920s in order to study the “Nordic” and “Lappish” races. Photo: Håkon Bergseth/Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology.

Figure 7. Photos from fieldtrips done during the 1920s in order to study the “Nordic” and “Lappish” races. Photo: Håkon Bergseth/Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology.

Figure 8. Detail from “The archive.” Photo: Håkon Bergseth/Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology.

Figure 8. Detail from “The archive.” Photo: Håkon Bergseth/Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology.

Figure 9. Nazi and eugenics propaganda posters and anti-racism movements in FOLK. Photo: Håkon Bergseth/Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology.

Figure 9. Nazi and eugenics propaganda posters and anti-racism movements in FOLK. Photo: Håkon Bergseth/Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology.

Figure 10. Detail of display cases in the curiosity cabinet. Photo: Martine Scheen Jahnsen.

Figure 10. Detail of display cases in the curiosity cabinet. Photo: Martine Scheen Jahnsen.