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Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Emotion in the museums; Approaches; Summary and outline of the book; Note; 2 The museums and their histories: The politics of Ottoman and republican pasts; The museums and their visitors; Panoramas in Turkey; Museums and republican memory; The Atatürk and Wars of Independence Museum (AWIM); Museums and Ottoman memory; The Panorama 1453 Museum (P1453); Conclusion; Notes; 3 Memory, emotion, politics: Understanding visitor encounters with history in the museums

Studying the museum displaysResearching the museum representations as productions; Visitor studies; Visitor observations; Visitor questionnaires; In-depth visitor research; 'Encoding' and 'decoding': a framework for understanding the responses; Identifying emotion in visitor experiences; Summary; 4 Politics of display at the Panorama 1453 Museum; Official voices at P1453; The visitor route and its effects; Textual constructions of the Conquest; The Panorama room; Content; Colour and light; Expressive content; Narrative; Emotional prompts in the museum; Final thoughts: greatness, will, winning

Notes5 Visitor experience at the Panorama 1453 Museum; Who we are; How we are (our nature); Our feelings; Restoration, reconnection: 'what should we do?'; What does it all mean for 'others'?; Final thoughts: pride, difficulty, nostalgia; Notes; 6 Politics of display at the Atatürk and War of Independence Museum; Institutional framing and official voices at AWIM; The visitor route and its effects; Display at AWIM; The Panoramas; Close analysis of the Gallipoli Battles Panorama; Content; Spatial organization; Expressive content and narrative; Interpretive panels and other resources

Final thoughts: militarism, pedagogy, emotionNotes; 7 Visitor experience at the Atatürk and War of Independence Museum; How Atatürk looks to us; What have we lost?; How we behave and how we feel; How we look to Atatürk; Other ways of experiencing AWIM; Final thoughts: modernity, obligation and competing freedoms; Notes; 8 Time machines and the politics of affective practice; The common cultures of AWIM and P1453; Memory communities at AWIM and P1453; Affective practice, memory work, work on the self; Conclusion: the emotional politics of memory in Turkey; Notes; Appendix; References; Index

Museums, Emotion, and Memory Culture examines the politics of emotion in history museums, combining approaches and concerns from museum, heritage and memory studies, anthropology and studies of emotion. Exploring the meanings and politics of memory contests in Turkey, a site for complex negotiations of identity, the book asks what it means for museums to charge the past with political agendas through spectacular, emotive representations. Providing an in-depth examination of emotional practice in two Turkish museums that present contrasting representations of the national past, the book analyses relationships between memory, governmentality, identity, and emotion. The museums discussed celebrate Ottoman and Early Republican pasts, linking to geo- and party politics, people's senses of who they are, popular memory culture, and competing national stories and identities vis--vis Europe and the wider world. Both museums use dramatic, emotive panoramas as key displays and the research at the heart of this book explores this seemingly anachronistic choice, and how it links with memory cultures to prompt visitors to engage imaginatively, socially, politically and morally with a particular version of the past. Although the book focuses on museums in Turkey, it uses this as a platform to address broader questions about memory culture, emotion, and identity. As such, Museums and Memory Culture should be of great interest to academics and students around the world who are engaged in the study of museums, heritage, culture, history, politics, anthropology, sociology, and the psychology of emotion.

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