The Political Museum

Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert is an Assistant Professor at the School of Fine and Applied Arts at the Cyprus University of Technology and the founder and coordinator of its Visual Sociology and Museum Studies Lab (www.vsmslab.com). Her research interests include museum studies and visual sociology with an emphasis on photography. Theopisti has published widely on museums and photography, most recent, she is the author of Museums and Visitor Photography (2015) and the editor of Displaying Death (forthcoming 2016). Alexandra Bounia is an Associate Professor of Museology at the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication of the University of the Aegean. She is also currently the Head of Department and the Vice Rector of Academic Affairs and Quality Assurance of the University. Alexandra has edited numerous volumes focusing on collections, technology, and museum education. She is also the author of The Nature of Classical Collecting: Collectors and Collecting 100 BCE-100 ACE (2004) and Behind the Scenes of the Museum: Museum Collections Management (in Greek, 2009).

1 Introduction
2 Museums, Politics, Stakeholders, and Conflict
3 National Museums: Heritage and Identity
4 Archaeology and the Politics of the Past
5 Defining “Cypriotness”: Folk Museums, Communities,
6 History and Memory: Victims, Heroes, and Enemies
7 Visualizing War: Photography and Museums
8 Cultural “Wars,” Religious Artifacts, and Visitors:
9 Art and Politics and the Politics of Art
10 Conclusions