Migration Museum of Denmark kicks off the new year with new research, which sheds light on the methodological potentials of letting museum workers follow the trajectories of forced mobility beyond national borders.
Based on his fieldwork at Migration Museum of Denmark, Mathias Dolmer Rasmussen (anthropologist and former research assistant) has published new research that explores how museums – by “following people” across time and space – can collect testimonies which provide a corporeal sense of the deterritorialized movements and experiences of displacement.
In his article “Testimonies in transit – an argument for a trans-border museum collection” in the journal ‘Nordisk Museologi’, Mathias argues that transnational documentation can place cross-border movements at the core of museums’ collecting, research, and dissemination on migration – thus challenging museological tendencies to affirm nationalist narratives about migration.
Would you like to learn more about the topic? Find the article here: https://journals.uio.no/museolog/.
Photo: Displaced Ukrainians returning to Ukraine. Przemyśl train station, March 2023. Photo: Mathias Dolmer Rasmussen, Migration Museum of Denmark.
