Suchergebnisse

The Palais de la Porte Doree in Paris has always been a museum, but its collections and their interpretation varied trough time: colonies, overseas, remote arts and finally immigration. These patrimonial changes and requalification provoked conflicts focused either on the collections or the building built in 1931 for the colonial exhibition. Contests relates to the patrimonial use of the building: strikes of employees in 2003 when the National Museum of Arts from Africa and Oceania closed; demonstrations of outside activists; controversies and resignations of intellectuals in 2007 when the Palais became the National City of the History of Immigration. Other contests use heritage not as an issue but as a lever to defend a cause: the independence of former colonies or the regularisation of illegal immigrants with a particular focus on the sit-in by illegal 'worker strikers' during winter 2010. The authors try to grasp the originality of contestation tools belonging to the heritage area - support by photographers and illustrators, publication of books, exhibitions created by activists or permanent collection by the museum - and to tackle the nearly immediate capacity to 'digest' of present events via the heritage paradigm. Adapted from the source document.