The research demonstrated that the analysed texts in the museums in question are a key element of building the museums’ narratives. The materials for the analysis are captions, labels, audio guides, and texts from the websites, from the Museum of Soviet Occupation, Tbilisi, Georgia the Museum of Occupation and Fights for Freedom in Vilnius, Lithuania and the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide in Kiev, Ukraine. Aim, Method, and Discussion: The author aims to verify whether there is a disconnection between two or three parallel texts, between the texts and the visual image, and finally between the texts in question and the master narrative, as imposed by the policymakers. The stories told in museums can incorporate selected episodes into a national narrative. Museums are a powerful tool for policymakers they not only present neutral objects but also usually enter into dialogue with visitors and create a certain vision of history. Adopting the Benedict Anderson constructivist idea that nations are imagined – or socially constructed communities that have to be continuously reproduced in order to exist, we aim to analyse whether and in what ways historical and archaeological museums can serve as tools in the process of building or reshaping national identity in the post-Soviet landscape in order to achieve the state ambitions of the nation. Background: After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, in the ideology vacuum it left behind, the question of national identity became one of great importance.
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