This article examines a long history of objects’ use in “telling stories,” and speculates on how museums and other art forms might encourage “narrations” while leaving story-telling to visitors or viewers. David Chipperfield’s 2009 “restoration” of Berlin’s Neues Museum made great efforts to preserve traces not only of the objects displayed inside, but to present an open-ended “narrative” of the building’s own history. Attempts at making historical sites “tell” stories have, meanwhile, also extended into other visual arts in Germany, of which the article examines several, discussing them in relation with the concept of “postmemory” and national narratives of identity.

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在场中作为存在，在场中作为存在：柏林的博物馆学故事

本文考察了对象在“讲故事”中的使用历史悠久，并推测了博物馆和其他艺术形式如何在鼓励听众或观众听讲故事的同时鼓励“叙事”。大卫·奇珀菲尔德（David Chipperfield）在2009年对柏林的新博物馆（Neues Museum）进行了“修复”，做出了巨大的努力，不仅保留了内部陈列的物品的痕迹，而且还展示了这座建筑自身历史的开放式“叙述”。同时，尝试将历史遗迹“讲故事”也扩展到德国的其他视觉艺术领域，本文考察了其中的几种视觉艺术，并与“后记忆”概念和民族身份叙事进行了讨论。