TY - JOUR N2 - The article analyzes museum representations of communism in Poland from the perspective of exhibition strategies influencing the public understanding of the past. Over the past forty years, Western museums have increasingly moved away from the affirmative model of presenting the past, dominating since the nineteenth century, towards critical paradigms and even those pro-moting social activism. The analysis of Polish exhibitions devoted to recent history carried out from this perspective allows us to reveal the functions fulfilled by museum institutions in the Polish social and political reality. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/122078/PDF-MASTER/2021-01-HSRJ-20-Ziebinska-Witek.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/122078 PY - 2021 EP - 403 DO - 10.24425/hsm.2021.138894 KW - historical museum KW - communism KW - exhibition KW - museological paradigm A1 - Ziębińska-Witek, Anna PB - Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział PAN w Krakowie PB - Instytut Historii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego VL - tom 51 Spec. Iss. DA - 2022.01.03 T1 - Communism on Display. Representations of the Past in Polish Historical Museums SP - 389 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/122078 T2 - Historyka Studia Metodologiczne ER -