Download or read book Family, Memory and Emotion in the Museum written by Katie Barclay and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of the museum increasingly highlight the significant role of emotion in conveying information and shaping its reception by audiences. Representations of the family as an "emotional unit" provide a key resource for museums in this process, where naturalised displays of familial affective connections can be used to reinforce particular messages to visitors, notably around the make-up of the nation. Yet, both the family and its emotions are historically-contingent products, not universals. Thus this use of emotion reinforces particular types of historical knowledge and not others. This article explores this through a discussion of displays of the emotional family in museums across Europe, the US, and Australasia.