Dealing with Contested Heritage

This Master Thesis aims to provide a better insight into educational approaches, techniques and practices of incorporation and use of museums of occupation in history curricula in the Baltic states, i.e. how formal and informal education can co-exist in one domain and even cooperate. The thesis aims to provide knowledge about history education in museums of occupation and perceptions, attitudes and views on these museums of both the museum workers and history educators in the Baltic states. It also attempts to answer a more specific question, namely to what extent the notions of MPI (multiperspectivity, plurality and inclusivity) are reflected in museums’ exhibitions as well as educational approaches (e.g. dynamic approach to heritage education) to these museums from the perspectives of both the museum and school history educators.