Museologia
Dues travessies, una mar: repensant la identitat i la memòria en els museus marítims del Mediterrani
Paraules clau
Mediterrani; museus marítims; juxtaposició curatorial; estudis de la memòria; representació museística
Publicat:
27-03-2026DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51829/Drassana.33.734
Vol. (2025):Drassana
Resum
Aquest article explora com els museus marítims de la Mediterrània poden transcendir els relats nacionals tradicionals mitjançant l’ús de la juxtaposició curatorial com a forma de compromís ètic. Centrant-se en l’exposició An Island at the Crossroads (2024–2025) del Malta Maritime Museum, examina el potencial simbòlic d’exposar una àncora romana al costat de la joguina de flotació d’un infant migrant. Recorreguent als estudis de la memòria i a l’activisme museístic, l’article suggereix que aquests emparellaments qüestionen les històries lineals i promouen una reflexió afectiva i políticament compromesa. S’hi defensa que els museus marítims han d’esdevenir espais de consciència, on les complexes històries de fe, migració i identitat de la Mediterrània siguin interpretades críticament més que no pas simplement preservades.Agències de suport
- This work was financed with national funds through the FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, under project UIDB/04059/2020 (https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/04059/2020). It stems from my doctoral research in Museology at the University of Porto, which examines national maritime museums and the representation of identities within the Mediterranean context. The research is further supported by a PhD scholarship from the FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia.
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Anderson, Bridget. “New Directions in Migration Studies: Towards Methodological De-nationalism”. Comparative Migration Studies, vol. 7 (2019): Article 36. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-019-0140-8.
Aronsson, Peter, and Gabriella Elgenius, eds. National Museums and Nation Building in Europe, 1750–2010: Mobilisation and Legitimacy, Continuity and Change. London: Routledge, 2015.
Bennett, Tony. The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics. London: Routledge, 1995.
Beneki, Eleni, James P. Delgado, and Anthi Filippoupoliti. “Memory in the Maritime Museum: Objects, Narratives, Identities”. International Journal of Heritage Studies 18, no. 4 (2012): 347–51. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2011.647861.
Ben Yehoyada, Nissim, Heath Cabot, and Paul A. Silverstein. “Introduction: Remapping Mediterranean Anthropology”. History and Anthropology 31, no. 1 (2020): 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2019.1684274.
Braudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. Rev. ed. London: Collins, 1972. Originally published in 1949.
Broeze, Frank. “Maritime Museums: An Historian’s Reflection on Their Purposes, Objectives and Methods”. In Proceedings of the VIth International Congress of Maritime Museums, 36–42, 1987.
Bühagiar, Mario. “The St. Paul Shipwreck Controversy: An Assessment of the Source Material”. In Proceedings of History Week 1993, 181–213. Malta: The Malta Historical Society, 1997.
Bünz, Annika. Museum, Place, Architecture and Narrative. New York: Berghahn Books, 2022.
Cassar, Richard, and Reuben Bondin. The Shipwreck of St Paul: The Collegiate Church and the Feast. 2 vols. Valletta: Miranda Publishers, 2012.
Chambers, Iain. Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.
Cimoli, Anna Chiara. “The Memory of the Sea: Exhibiting a Museum”. In Museum Multiplicities: Field Actions and Research by Design, edited by Luca Basso Peressut, Cristina F. Colombo, and Gennaro Postiglione, 36–51. Milan: Politecnico di Milano, 2014.
Cimoli, Anna Chiara. “Migration Museums in Europe: Narratives and Their Visual Translations”. In MeLa Book Series, vol. 2, 313–91. 2013.
Conti, Emannuel Magro. “The Malta Maritime Museum”. Malta: Heritage Books, Heritage Malta 2006..
Dalli, Charles. Malta: The Medieval Millennium. Malta: Midsea Books, 2006.
Elhariry, Yasser, and Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, eds. Critically Mediterranean: Temporalities, Aesthetics, and Deployments of a Sea in Crisis. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Fogu, Claudio. The Fishing Net and the Spider Web: Mediterranean Imaginaries and the Making of Italians. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Foucault, Michel. The Archaeology of Knowledge. London: Tavistock, 1972.
Gambin, Timmy, and John M. McManamon. Searching for Paul: From Scripture to Tradition, Archaeology and the Maltese Landscape. Valletta: Heritage Malta Publishing, 2025.
Gatt, Mark. Paulus: The Shipwreck AD 60. 2nd ed. United States: Fulton Books, 2024.
Hansen, Malene Vest, Anne Folke Henningsen, and Anne Gregersen, eds. Curatorial Challenges: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Contemporary Curating. London: Routledge, 2019.
Hicks, Dan. “What Is a Maritime Museum?” Museum Management and Curatorship 19, no. 2 (2001): 159–74. https://doi.org/10.1080/09647770100401902.
Horden, Peregrine, and Nicholas Purcell. The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
International Organization for Migration. “Missing Migrants Project”. 2023. Accessed August 6, 2025. https://missingmigrants.iom.int.
Janes, Robert R., and Richard Sandell, eds. Museum Activism. London: Routledge, 2019.
Knell, Simon. “National Museums and the National Imagination”. In National Museums: New Studies from Around the World, edited by Simon J. Knell, Peter Aronsson, and Arne Bugge Amundsen, 3–28. London: Routledge, 2011. https://www.doi.org/10.4324/9781315787312-3.
Landsberg, Alison. “Memory vs. History: The Politics of Temporality”. In The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism, edited by Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg, 42–47. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2023.
Lynch, Bernadette. “Disturbing the Peace: Museums, Democracy and Conflict Avoidance”. In Heritage and Peacebuilding in Practice, edited by Diana Walters, Daniel Laven, and Peter Davis, 109–26. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108678087.010.
Malta. Government of Malta. Ministry for Development of Infrastructure. Planning Services Division. (1990). Structure plan for the Maltese islands: written statement November 1990 – 1st Draft. Beltissebh, Malta.
MeLa Project. “Research Field 02”. Accessed August 6, 2025. https://www.mela-project.polimi.it/.
Moser, Stephanie. “The Devil Is in the Detail: Museum Displays and the Creation of Knowledge”. Museum Anthropology 33, no. 1 (2010): 22–32. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1379.2010.01072.x.
Nora, Pierre. Realms of Memory: Rethinking the French Past. Volume 2: Traditions. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Noiriel, Gérard. “Histoire, mémoire, engagement civique”. Hommes & Migrations, no. 1247 (January–February 2004): 17–26.
Paine, Lincoln. “Connecting Past and Present: Maritime Museums and Historical Mission”. The Mariner’s Mirror 102, no. 4 (2016): 388–99. https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.2016.1240968.
Platt, Katrin. “Constructing the Idea of ‘Identity’ in the Mediterranean: Patterns and Practices”. In The Mediterranean Other – The Other Mediterranean. Leiden: Brill | Schöningh, 2019. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783657785315_004.
Serracino Inglott, P. “Birgu Looking to the Future”. In Birgu: A Maltese Maritime City. Vol. 2, edited by L. Bugeja, M. Buhagiar, and S. Fiorini, (1993): 797–804. Msida: Malta University Services.
Steinberg, Philip, and Kimberley Peters. “Wet Ontologies, Fluid Spaces: Giving Depth to Volume through Oceanic Thinking”. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 33, no. 2 (2015): 247–64. https://doi.org/10.1068/d14148p.
Sutherland, Claire. “All at Sea? Using Seaborne Mobilities to Decolonialise National Narratives in Maritime Museums”. Mobilities 16, no. 3 (2021): 382–96. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2021.1945422.
Sutherland, Claire. Reimagining the Nation: Togetherness, Belonging and Mobility. Bristol: Policy Press, 2017.
Watson, Sheila. National Museums and the Origins of Nations: Emotional Myths and Narratives. London: Routledge, 2021.
Whitehead, Christopher. Analysing Museum Display: Theory and Method. London: Routledge, 2024.
Wüstenberg, Jenny. “Toward Slow Memory Studies”. In Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches, edited by Brett Ashley Kaplan. London: Bloomsbury Academic. (2023): 59–68
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Dues travessies, una mar: repensant la identitat i la memòria en els museus marítims del Mediterrani. (2026). Drassana, 33, 171-191. https://doi.org/10.51829/Drassana.33.734