Κατεύθυνση Μουσειακές Σπουδές
Library of the School of Philosophy

2017-07-04

2017

Mageiria Christina

Μούλιου Μάρλεν, Λέκτορας Μουσειολογίας, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας του Εθνικού και Καποδιστριακού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών
Καραμανωλάκης Βαγγέλης, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής Νεότερης Ελληνικής Ιστορίας (από την Ελληνική Επανάσταση έως σήμερα), Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας του Εθνικού και Καποδιστριακού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών
Λαμπροπούλου Δήμητρα, Λέκτορας Νεότερης Ελληνικής Ιστορίας (από την Ελληνική Επανάσταση έως σήμερα), Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας του Εθνικού και Καποδιστριακού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών

Χώροι ιστορικής μνήμης της «σκοτεινής επταετίας» (1967-1974). Μελέτη περίπτωσης: Μουσείο Αντιδικτατορικής Δημοκρατικής Αντίστασης.

Greek

Places of important historical significance for the dark years of 1967-1974. Case study: Museum of the Democratic Resistance against the Dictatorship.

The subject of the current work is to address the “difficult heritage” and traumatic historical events of 1967-1974 as documented in museums. This is to be achieved through investigation of exhibitions connected to the actions of the dictatorship of the colonels (1967-1974) and the Special Investigation Section of the Greek Military Police (EAT-ESA).
The Greek Military Police (ESA) was founded in 1951 and was linked with the illiberal and authoritarian state that was established in Greece at the end of the Civil War. Between 1967-1974 the ESA constituted the most extreme expression of the ideology and the organization of the dictatorial establishment. The EAT-ESA was the administrative headquarters of the ESA, located in Athens and during the junta functioned as a place to detain, interrogate and torture political prisoners. The basic method of torture applied by the EAT-ESA was beating in any form.
Four stone-buildings remain intact of the former headquarters in Eleftheria Park, close to the Athens Concert Hall, and constitute exemplary listed monuments of military architecture of the 19th century. One of the buildings stands empty while the others house the Eleftherios Venizelos Museum, Athens Arts Centre and the Museum of Democratic Resistance against the Dictatorship which manages the Association of Imprisoned and Exiled Resistance-Fighters 1967-1974 (SFEA).
Proposals are being put forward to display parts of the EAT-ESA Military Camp in the project to create a museum for the “Former EAT-ESA: A place for historical memories”, which will negotiate the “difficult heritage” of the seven-year period.
The main element of the museum proposal is to represent a “biography” of the places of detention, imprisonment and torture of political prisoners between 1967-1974 and particularly the history of the EAT-ESA. The exhibition will include an outline of the repressive mechanisms adopted by the junta to neutralize its political opponents, representation of the anti-dictatorship fight and the defence and promotion of human rights, particularly those threatened nowadays by the authoritarian practices of powerful institutions and other groups.
Oral history will be the basic tool of narrative for the museum. The recorded oral histories of ten former prisoners/exiles will be used. The political prisoners narrate their memoirs from the period of the junta, describing the dictatorship, the anti-dictatorship fight, the incarceration and the violence experienced from the authoritarian establishment.

Museology

dictatorship of colonels, junta, prisons, exile, political prisoners in 1967-1974, Greek Military Police (ESA), Special Investigation Section of the Greek Military Police (EAT-ESA), Greek Military Police officers, torture, Museum of the Democratic Resistance against the Dictatorship, Association of Imprisoned and Exiled Resistance-Fighters 1967-1974 (SFEA), museology, difficult heritage, oral history

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https://pergamos.lib.uoa.gr/uoa/dl/object/1695510