ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses that definitions of patriotism, citizenship, and nationalism have evolved at the five public memory sites. It serves as the illustrative texts for observing the evolution of the sites' messages and for understanding the prevailing forces at the time of their creation and revision. The production of interpretive materials to meet visitor-centric paradigm requires a profound reorienting of representations at public memory sites and an engagement with sharing historical authority. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, a profound change took place in many museums and visitor centers in the United States. The California State Railroad Museum's initial elision of the Chinese contribution reflected a resistance from its public to incorporating the railroad's negative social consequences.
