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Deindustrialization and Museumification: From Exhibited Memory to Forgotten History

Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sociales de Paris, LAHIC laboratory (Laboratory of Anthropology and History of Cultural Institutions, CNRS).

This ethnographic study of the creation of a museum in Le Creusot (France) provides an analysis of the heritage industry that emerged in the wake of the demise of a family company around which the town was built. This museum was a reaction to the passing of an age when industrial and urban environments were intrinsically linked. Through this description of how the past is collected and recollected in a museum, this article attempts to determine if this duty of remembrance is not, to a certain extent, a strategy of forgetfulness. Is cultural regeneration—the staging of history fading into oblivion—our society’s sole response to industrial regeneration?

Key Words: ecomuseum • industry • Le Creusot (France) • memory • museum

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 595, No. 1, 122-133 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0002716204266630


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