The aim of this study is to critically examine how the theoretical concepts of gender arrangement, gender regime and masculinity become visible on a historical museum's website and how an analysis of gender arrangement, gender regime and masculinity can be understood with an intersectional perspective on gender, class, and religion. The study is guided by a social constructivist approach. The museum Livrustkammaren's digital web exhibition 500 Years of Royal History is analyzed using a thematic analysis method. As a complement, a multimodal analysis method is used to understand and analyze the relationship between image and text in the exhibition. The exhibition consists of six rooms linked to different eras where royals are represented, and events associated to them are described. The analysis finds that the museum has and use a gender perspective but that it needs to be highlighted and more widely used in the exhibition. Women are often represented as passive and submissive, while the representation of men presents them as active and dominant. Though there are other representations where women are highlighted and men’s struggle with gender roles are made visible, the gender perspective can be clearer. Sometimes there is a normalization of traditional gender roles in history that can be highlighted and problematized instead of being normalized.
2022-06-02