Article of the day: Sports History as Threatened Public History

Jucker, Michael: Sports History as Threatened Public History. In: Public History Weekly 7 (2019) 4, DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1515/phw-2019-13304.

... "Whereas the Swiss Sports Museum also covered numerous marginal sports and women’s sport, the largest museums, namely the FIFA Museum in Zurich and the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, mainly attract tourists and school classes with up-to-date major sporting disciplines. Particularly striking, moreover, is that both the museums tend to deal with their own past in a rather uncritical manner: Corruption or the role of both the associations during the National Socialist era hardly play a role at all. Both museums are strongly present in dramaturgy and in conveying emotions. "....