Shaping the Nordic Past: History-Makers or Money-Makers?

Knowledge on the Nordics

This nordics.info podcast will be about the practicalities of history-making and how commercial and non-commercial organisations use history to sell tickets or a particular version of the past.

Listen to this podcast if you want to hear more about:

• What role do museums play?
• The specific heritage portrayed by country houses in and outside the Nordics.
• What we forget is just as important as what we remember: mobilising the past for the future.
• The tradition for folk and open air museums in the Nordics.
• How can negative histories be useful?
• Tourism and national heritage: The Little Mermaid.
• What are the responsibilities of commercial and non-commercial history-makers?

The editor of nordics.info and Danish history student Vibeke Sandager Rønnedal interview two historians from Aarhus University and the Danish Centre for Urban History.
Find out more on nordics.info.
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Chapters

1. Shaping the Nordic Past: History-Makers or Money-Makers? (00:00:00)

2. What role do museums play? (00:02:37)

3. The specific heritage portrayed by country houses in and outside the Nordics (00:04:50)

4. What we forget is just as important as what we remember: mobilising the past for the future (00:09:48)

5. The tradition for folk and open air museums in the Nordics (00:12:15)

6. How can negative histories be useful? (00:13:47)

7. Tourism and national heritage: The Little Mermaid (00:23:00)

8. What are the responsibilities of commercial and non-commercial history-makers? (00:28:03)