The Impossible Museum: Negotiating Contested Heritage and Fractured Memories at the Museum of Yugoslavia

My project explores the contested heritage in Eastern Europe, focusing on how the “inclusive heritage discourse” and “multidirectional memory” work in practice at post-conflict heritage sites.  How do museums confront radical social changes, such as the collapse of authoritarian regimes, and evolve in the aftermath of major geopolitical shifts?  Nominally reliable anchors of identity, museums in the post-Socialist sector today grapple with questions of authority and even basic relevance, as they navigate the flux of changing spatial, ideological, and national aspects.  A tribute to a geopolitical entity that no longer exists and a remarkable site of dissonant heritage, the Museum of Yugoslavia in Belgrade offers both provisional answers and posits difficult questions