AIDS Politics of Representation and Narratives: A Current Project at the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (Mucem) in Marseilles, France

Politique de représentation et récits du SIDA : un projet en cours au Musée des civilisations européennes et méditerranéennes (Mucem) à Marseille France

Renaud Chantraine (1) , Florent Molle (2) , Sandrine Musso (3)

1 EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales
2 Mucem - Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée
3 CNELIAS - Centre Norbert Elias

The purpose of this article is to report on a unique experience of bringing the topic of AIDS into a museum in France, and to describe and document the distinctive questions and practices of the museum that "exhibiting AIDS" implies. We will first present the context of the emergence of the AIDS issue in a society museum and then in the creation of a heritage fund. We will consider what stages in the history of the museum and the epidemic can be distinguished. Then we will discuss how, within a scientific committee and then in a broader community committee, we have planned to discuss the issues related to the local memory of AIDS, taking into account its global dimension, as well as the challenges involved with the museum setting.

Mots clés: museum; AIDS

Mots clés: SIDA; scénographie; musée

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie; Héritage culturel et muséologie

Renaud Chantraine, Florent Molle, Sandrine Musso. AIDS Politics of Representation and Narratives: A Current Project at the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (Mucem) in Marseilles, France. Oncurating, 2019, What You Don’t Know About AIDS Could Fill A Museum: Curatorial Ethics and the Ongoing Epidemic in the 21st Century, 42, pp.206-218. ⟨hal-03020027⟩