How are opportunities to critically reflect upon military violence and militarization shaped by museal representations of a country's military history? Inspired by a critical heritage perspective and feminist international relations research, this article contributes to the scholarly discussion of the political implications of military memory making. The aim is to analyse how military violence is framed in official heritagization of the Cold War period in Sweden. Based on fieldwork at three military museums, the article discusses how framings of violence affect opportunities to politically and ethically engage with military issues and the use of force. A central question concerns how gender underpins representations of violence at the museums and how this gendering affects politicization. The analysis discloses that military violence is framed as sacred sacrifice, as ‘pure’ technology, as play and as (male) omnipotence. The argument made is that such gendered frames obscure and depoliticize problematic aspects of military violence.

一个国家军事历史的博物馆展示如何塑造了批判性反思军事暴力和军事化的机会？受批判遗产视角和女权主义国际关系研究的启发，本文有助于对军事记忆制作的政治影响进行学术讨论。目的是分析军事暴力是如何在瑞典冷战时期的官方遗产化中被陷害的。基于在三个军事博物馆的实地调查，本文讨论了暴力框架如何影响从政治和道德角度处理军事问题和使用武力的机会。一个核心问题是性别如何支撑博物馆中的暴力表现，以及这种性别化如何影响政治化。分析表明，军事暴力被框定为神圣的牺牲、“纯”技术、游戏和（男性）无所不能。所提出的论点是，这种性别化的框架掩盖了军事暴力的问题方面并将其非政治化。