Cold War Museology: How museums shape(d) our understanding of the Cold War We invite practitioners and academics to propose papers for an international conference hosted in Edinburgh in June 2023, that will bring together inter-disciplinary and international research on Cold War museology. We aim broadly to analyse the current condition of the material heritage the
Samuel J.M.M. Alberti & Holger Nehring (2022) The Cold War in European museums – filling the ‘empty battlefield’, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 28:2, 180-199, DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2021.1954054 Recent historical research has analysed the Cold War as an ‘imaginary war’, an interpretation that poses specific challenges for displaying the conflict in museums. In contrast to well-established representations of the First and Second World