In this article I investigate the making of two new museums of Europe—Marseille's Museum of the Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean and Berlin's Museum of European Cultures—by focusing on the kinds of “Europe” envisioned in their exhibitions. I argue that museums represent an important site where the geopolitical imaginary of a bounded, culturalized Europe is produced, even if by default. I explore how these older national folklore collections were strategically rebranded as museums of Europe to give a second life to their nearly obsolete displays. National projects and geopolitics play a key role in such memorial Europeanization. These insights challenge taken-for-granted understandings of scale in memory studies and offer a more nuanced understanding of how Europeanization is playing out within cultural institutions. Amid multiple European crises, “Europe” is increasingly imagined as a diverse but essentially united cultural space—however fuzzy and contested its cultural content may be—while this spatial imaginary is racialized in subtle ways.

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欧洲博物馆：记忆、边界和种族的纠缠

在这篇文章中，我通过关注展览中所设想的“欧洲”类型，调查了两个新的欧洲博物馆——马赛的欧洲和地中海文明博物馆和柏林的欧洲文化博物馆——的建造过程。我认为，博物馆代表了一个重要的地点，在那里产生了一个有边界的、文化化的欧洲的地缘政治想象，即使是默认的。我探索了这些古老的民族民间传说收藏品如何被战略性地重新命名为欧洲博物馆，为其几乎过时的展览赋予第二次生命。国家项目和地缘政治在这种纪念性欧洲化中发挥着关键作用。这些见解挑战了记忆研究中对规模的理所当然的理解，并提供了对欧洲化如何在文化机构中发挥作用的更细致入微的理解。