ABSTRACT
By using the intriguing example of Cyprus as a test-ground, this book aims to explore identity formation through museums in new emerging nation-states amidst actual or symbolic conflict. Cyprus, a small island with a long history of political conflict, is a country small enough to allow us to deconstruct its museums’ histories and put the pieces of politics, culture, power, conflict, and identity together in an intellectual puzzle. At the same time, it is also historically and politically rich enough to allow for complexity and nuanced understandings.
