DEBARY, Octave <br/><br/>
Deindustrialization and museumification :  from exhibited memory to forgotten history 

 - Thousand Oaks :  SAGE,  September 2004 
<br/><br/> This ethnographic study of the creation of a museum in Le Creusot (France) provides an analysis of the heritage industry that emerged in the wake of the demise of a family company around which the town was built. This museum was a reation to the passing of an age when industrial and urban environments were intrinsically linked. Through this description of how the past is collected and recollected in a museum, this article attempts to determine if this duty of remembrance is not, to a certain extent, a strategy of forgetfulness. Is cultural regeneration - the staging of history fading into oblivion - our society's sole response to industrial regeneration?