Potentiality of the museum for historiography of war: effectiveness of the method of history

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H03259
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: History of Europe and America
• Research Institution: Komazawa University
• Principal Investigator: SASAKI Makoto 駒澤大学, 文学部, 教授 (70265966)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 丸畠 宏太 敬和学園大学, 人文学部, 教授 (20202335) ; 辻本 諭 岐阜大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (50706934) ; 剣持 久木 静岡県立大学, 国際関係学部, 教授 (60288503) ; 西山 暁義 共立女子大学, 国際学部, 教授 (80348606)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): HARADA Keiichi 佛教大学, 歴史学部, 教授 (70238179) ; SUZUKI Tadashi 中央大学, 文学部, 教授 (90301613)
• Research Collaborator: MATSUMOTO Akira ; SEIGAN Kobo ; SAITO Keita
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ヨーロッパ史 / 軍事史 / 戦争 / 博物館 / 記憶 / 歴史叙述 / 歴史認識 / 平和

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research was to investigate the history and the exhibition of war museums in Europe, and to examine the problem of the narrative of war in historiography. From the research on many museums, this project demonstrated two major matters. Firstly, in European museums, war was not only expressed as the brave deeds of Nation States which cultivated the nationalism, but as the common experience of the European people. Secondly, most museums made every effort to show the war as social phenomena, and the old type of exhibition, which emphasized arms, uniforms and battles, withered up. This project revealed that the war museum was the outcome of the History as social science, and simultaneously, that of the “Collective Memory” or “Public history” which closely related to our modern society.

Free Research Field

人文学・史学・ヨーロッパ史