Materialising the Cold War

Materialising the Cold War is a partnership between the University of Stirling and National Museums Scotland that will explore how the Cold War, its global experience and its heritage are described in museums and how museums can adapt to tell this story in future.

Principal Investigator: Dr Samuel Alberti, Honorary Professor, University of Stirling and Head of Collections, National Museums of Scotland

Chief Investigator: Professor Holger Nehring, Professor of Contemporary History, University of Stirling

Postdoctoral Research Fellows: Jessica Douthwaite, University of Stirling, and Jim Gledhill, National Museums Scotland

It will achieve this in two ways: first, by evaluating existing displays and collections together with key partners in the UK, Germany and Norway, and second, by creating a new, ground-breaking special exhibition at National Museums Scotland on the basis of our findings.

Funded by a major grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (Project Reference: AH/V001078/1), our three-year project will leave a legacy of ideas and practices developed through academic research, events, a schools’ programme, a major exhibition and publications.