Modelscapes of Nationalism. Collective Memories and Future Visions

Padan, Yael

doi:10.5117/9789089649850

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“…It houses some archaeological artefacts, which date back around the time represented in the model. The relocation of the Holyland Model from the hotel to the context of the Israel Museum has greatly enhanced its status as both a national exhibit and a scientifically accurate representation (Padan, 2017a; Chapter Three).…”

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Seeing is believing: miniature and gigantic architectural models of second temple

Padan

2019

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

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Miniature architectural models are often used as signs or markers, which frame a touristic site as a place worth visiting. In this paper I explore the relations of such models to the 'real' sites, as well as to other copies and representations. The article examines the Holyland Model, a miniature model showing Jerusalem in the year 66 AD, which has become a tourist site in its own right. The central building in this model is the miniature Jewish Temple, which was later replicated in both miniature and gigantic copies. I follow the transformation of this Temple image, from a secularcultural symbol of Israeli national identity to a represention of different Orthodox Jewish and Christian evangelical agendas. I argue that the large-scale buildings in fact replicate the miniature models, inverting both sign relation and scale relation between original and copy. The use and manipulation of the image of a building, produced initially at the Holyland Model, has become an essential device for the production of meaning and affect.

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Section: The Holyland Model Imentioning

confidence: 99%