| Tittel: | How the U-2 Became a Museum Object : Local Identities and Museum Collections at the Norwegian Aviation Museum in Bodø | | Ansvar: | Karl L. Kleve | | Forfatter: | Kleve, Karl Lorentz  | | Materialtype: | Kapittel | | Signatur: | Digital PDF | | Utgitt: | London : Routledge, 2024 | | Omfang: | 18 sider | | ISBN/ISSN: | 9781032690414 | | Klassenummer: | 909.82 | | Emneord: | "Den kalde krigen" / Atomkappløp / Beredskap / Cold war / Foreign policy / Jernteppe / Kald krig / Museologi / Museum / Samfunnssikkerhet / U2 / U-2 / Utstilling | | Personer som emne: | Francis Gary Powers | | Geografiske emneord: | Norge / Sovjetunionen / USSR | | Note: | Bokkapittelet finnes kun som PDF på høyre side. | | Innhold: | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chapter 13 in the book Cold War Museology, edited ByJessica Douthwaite, Holger Nehring, Samuel J.M.M. Alberti.
Chapter written by Karl L. Kleve, curator at the Norwegian Aviation Museum.
In May 1960, a U-2 spyplane was shot down over Sverdlovsk in the USSR. Pilot Francis Gary Powers was taken prisoner and put on a show trial in Moscow. When Powers pointed at Bodø as his intended destination, he put the town on the map as a Cold War hotspot. The U-2 entered the world stage as a spectacular and mythic Cold War aircraft. Although the plane never arrived in Bodø in 1960 and never visited the town again, it became inextricably linked to Bodø and a reference point for the city’s contemporary identity. Acquiring an actual U-2 aircraft became important for the founders of the Norwegian Aviation Museum when the museum opened in 1994. This chapter will discuss the role of the U-2 in shaping Bodø’s identity as a Cold War hotspot and thus highlight how local memories shape museum acquisition policies.
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