On International Museum Day, #HistoryChatter recalls the history of the movement. Even though the date was fixed by ICOM, and preservation of heritage has been promoted aggressively by UNESCO since the Second World War, its history goes back to the 1920s.
Nicholas Roerich, a Russian but a global citizen encouraged American Vice President Henry Wallace to make the first major move in this direction in 1935. This episode recalls the details of that history.
At the same time, it also asks whether it is at all possible to resolve the basic contradiction between the idea of a museum as a custodian of a nation’s heritage and the idea of museums as repositories of a common global heritage. HistoryChatter believes this conflict throws up some promising prospects.

 

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