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Museums and Oral History

The museum sector is also seeing numerous developments in the field of oral history—discover inspiring real-world examples and the latest news.

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Handbook for curating oral histories

Making oral history visible, usable, and meaningful for a wider audience.
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Exhibition ‘My freedom – your freedom’?

News

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Events

Expert meeting on museums: Oral history and Presentation

02.04.2026

Oral history in Musea  

National Holocaust Museum – Amsterdam

National Monument Camp Amersfoort

National Monument Camp Vught

Museum of Water Disaster 1953

Oral History: Lives Behind the Field of Death – Srebrenica Memorial Center

Our Country – Decolonisation, Generations, Stories

The Voice of Leiden

The Reconstruction of My Life

Witness stories

Jewish children in camp Vught

Publications

Publications

Curating Oral Histories

From Interview to Archive
Nancy MacKay
Routledge, 2016
ISBN: 9781611328561
To publication

The Voice of the Past: Oral History

Paul Thompson (Oxford University Press, London / New York, 1978)
To publication

Narrating our pasts: The social construction of oral history

Elizabeth Tonkin
Cambridge University Press, 1992
ISBN: 9781316041567
To publication

Oral history as genre

Alessandro Portelli
In: M. Chamberlain & P. Thompson (eds.), Narrative and genre (pp. 23-45).
Londen: Routledge, 1998
ISBN 9780415757034

The Oral History Reader

Robert Perks, Alistair Thomson (Routledge, London / New York, 1998)
To publication

The Artist Interview

For Conservation and Presentation of Contemporary Art. Guidelines and Practice
Lydia Beerkens, Paulien ‘t Hoen, Tatja Scholte en Sanneke Stigter. (Jap Sam Books, Heijningen 2012)
To publication

Doing Oral History

Donald A. Ritchie (Oxford University Press, 2014)
To publication

Trauma and Life Stories

International perspective
Edited By With Graham Dawson, Kim Lacy Rogers, Selma Leydesdorff
Routledge, 2014
ISBN 9780415757751
To publication

Indigenous Oral History Manual

Canada and the United States
Winona Wheeler
Routledge, 2nd edition 2023
ISBN: 9780367746797
To publication

Symposia en exptertmeetings

Oral History in Motion – a look back at the 2025 symposium

Expert meeting on museums: Oral history and Presentation

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