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Tidsskriftet UP–unge pædagoger. Tema: Museumsdidaktik
Authors: Christensen Line Hjorth
Published: August 2018

Det er ikke en tilfældighed, at anslagene i Unge Pædagogers særnummer med temaet museumsdidaktik kommer fra politisk hold – fra en nu forhenværende kulturminister samt en artikel fra Kulturstyrelsen om en undersøgelse fra 2008 af museernes undervisningsaktiviteter. Teksterne cementerer for det første en forbindelse mellem museerne og en politisk magt, som rækker tilbage til 1958, hvor landet fik sin første museumslov; for det andet, at museerne fra første færd havde et pædagogisk sigte, der gennem tiden har været præget af skiftende politiske strømninger. Allerede i 1963 og fremsynet for sin tid, udgav Unge Pædagoger et specialnummer på 56 sider med temaet Skole og Museum, og også dengang skrev kulturministeren forordet: ”Unge Pædagoger er et fortrinligt tidsskrift. Jeg læser det med glæde. Der er næsten altid et eller andet inspirerende afsnit, der har bud også til kulturministeriet,” hed det i Julius Bomholts intro (s. 110).
Ambivalent praktisering av statlig eierskap i arkeologiske gjenstander
Authors: Omland Atle
Published: August 2018

Ever since Norway adopted its first Cultural Heritage Act in 1905, all newly discovered archaeological artefacts that predate AD 1537 are owned by the Norwegian state. Five designated university museums currently take care of such archaeological finds. However, private individuals often keep such finds in their possession, and in many cases archaeologists make no active effort to collect these. In order to attain knowledge about attitudes to state ownership in Norway, and the situation whereby private individuals keep archaeological finds, three surveys have been carried out: one among archaeologists and two among the public. These surveys document ambivalence about how state ownership is practiced. Although both archaeologists and members of the public support – in principle – the idea that all artefacts ought to be handed in to the museums, in practice they take a more pragmatic approach. About 6 per cent of the respondents in the surveys conducted among the general public report that they keep archaeological finds. A personal relationship between the keeper, artefact and place/land seems to be the most important reason why such respondents keep them in their possession. Nevertheless, a majority of even these respondents still supports the public ownership of such finds – in principle. The surveys indicate that more efforts ought to be made to stimulate the collecting of archaeological finds, as well as providing better access to such artefacts in local communities. For instance, it is suggested that a greater degree of local or private storage of artefacts might be formalised. In this regard, it is important that heritage management develop priorities, and provide archaeologists with ap- propriate advice in order to stimulate well-considered decisions about whether they collect artefacts to the museums or deposit them locally.
ISEA 2011. International Symposium on Electronic Art
Authors: Thelle Mikkel
Published: August 2018

Rather than being a conference, ISEA 2011 is a festival of digital media, art and culture. The many different formats and activities are stimulating, but it is also sometimes difficult to find an overall perspective from which to describe the whole event. This year ISEA, which is one of the major digital festivals, was held in Istanbul, a city whose diversity was a mirror of the event itself. Among the many sessions can be highlighted themes such as “the logarithmic turning point”, which focuses on the influence that digital programming has had on global culture; ”media architecture”, understood as interactive façades in urban spaces; ”the curatorial gesture”, about curating and archiving new media and the issues around the role of New Media Art in art history. More generally, ISEA was permeated by the new media replication and unpredictabi- lity of new media, one expression of which was the festival’s ”Uncontainable” curatorial theme. As a negotiation of form and content, museums of cultural history in particular have something to learn from art and new media.
Identity politics and uses of the past with European national museums
Authors: Aronsson Peter
Published: August 2018

The article presents a research project on identity politics in Europe. European National Museums: Identity politics, the uses of the past and the European citizen (EuNaMus, www.eunamus.eu) explores the creation and power of the heritage created and presented by European national museums. National museums are defined and explored as processes of institutionalized negotiations where material collections and displays make claims and are recognized as articulating and representing national values and realities. Questions asked in the project are why, by whom, when, with what material, with what result and future possibilities are these museums shaped.
Forord
Authors: Hafsteinsson Sigurjón Baldur
Published: August 2018

In his keynote presentation at the ICOM/CECA 2009 annual conference in Reykjavík, Iceland, George E. Hein argued that around the turn of the20th century, political leaders in the US, as well as scholars such as the pragmatist philosopher John Dewey, envisioned a democratic role for museums. Museums were perceived as places of significant potential for providing their guests with opportunities for learning about the benefits of the democratic ideal in human societies. Even if we are far removed from the early 20th century, Hein ́s presentation – and his published work, such as Learning in the Museum (1998) – reminds us about the importance of looking at contemporary ideas and programmes in museum education from both historical and theoretical vantage points. Historically, the pendulum of museum education has swung in relation to cultural and societal forces that have determined how and to whom its pedagogical activities should be addressed. By examining exam- ples of such activities, we learn what is possible – and what can fail, at times utterly and without exception.
Kunstpædagogisk teori og praksis i et didaktisk perspektiv
Authors: Illeris Helene
Published: August 2018

This article presents a critical study of the relationship between theory and practice in the field of gallery education, within a conceptual framework borrowed from American curriculum theory from the 1970s. Inspired by Elliot Eisner’s and Elisabeth Vallance’s book Conflicting Conceptions of Curriculum (1974), the article individuates four conceptions within contemporary gallery education, pre- sented within two models: 1. Gallery education based on theories of aesthetic expe- rience, 2. gallery education based on theories of learning and cognition, 3. gallery education based on theories of curriculum and ‘bildung’ 4. gallery education based on theories of social critique and change. In the second part of the article, each of the four conceptions is exemplified via a systematic analysis of two contemporary Nordic or British texts on gallery education. Studies and discussions of the relationships between theory, goals and proposals for educational practices within each of this total of eight texts allow the author to argue for more precise curriculum-based reflections within Nordic gallery education practice.
Frösamlingar på museer – ny teknik gör värdelösa föremål värdefulla igen
Authors: Leino Matti Wiking
Published: August 2018

Nordic museums hold large collections of seed samples from the 19th century that are probably unique in a world context. These collections were origi- nally assembled for agricultural exhibitions or educational purposes but thereafter stored in the museums and often considered meaningless objects that merely take up space. In the 21th century, however, the importance of seed collections has once again been recognized and they have been given new attention as valuable research materials. The development of molecular biology techniques has made it possible to analyze the genetic composition of seeds even though they are non-viable. In turn, these genetic analyses could help to reveal answers to questions about agricultural history, food quality and authenticity of historical plants. Here, I describe some Nordic seed collections, their research potential and ongoing research projects that make use of these special museum objects.
Materials research in conservation and heritology
Authors: Knuutinen Ulla
Published: August 2018

This article is based on the dissertation by the author. It creates a connection between materials research and conservation and heritology. Materials research is a part of multidisciplinary heritology and it has an important role in preserving cultural heritage. If reliable information for the documentation is needed about the materials in an object, on the origin of the object, on the authenticity of the object or on whether any restoration has been carried out previously, analyses that reveal chemical compositions must be performed. On the other hand, the materials research can be focused on examining the ageing properties of materials to find out the chemical and physical changes caused by different environmental conditions. This kind of research benefits the preservation of cultural heritage objects, because results can be applied to both preventive and active conservation. Furthermore, materials research is needed for testing and examining the conservation and restoration methods.
Computerspil og kunstmuseer
Authors: Hansen André Wang
Published: August 2018

Via a range of examples, the article discusses connections between technology, computer games and presentations of art. On the basis of Walter Benjamin’s notorious dictum from the past that the illiterates of the future will not be those who cannot read or write but those who are not capable of dealing with the visual culture of their own time, the article argues that current worldwide visual digital communications, including computer gaming, also have interesting potential for the art museums, especially regarding youth as a forthcoming core group of art consumers. The focus is on – amongst others – the former virtual presentation of the Van Gogh Museum and the first shooter action game Duke Nukem, the Louvre Museum and the Da Vinci Code game and on remediating performances in the Second Life virtual universe.
Man ser inte utställningen för bara föremål
Authors: Agrell Tandi
Published: August 2018

Most visitors to a museum exhibition expect the presence of authentic artefacts. With their materiality and history, these artefacts are considered to be specific to the exhibition medium. The author goes beyond this to assert that the use of authentic artefacts makes it more difficult to bring about the communication that the exhibition is trying to achieve. Despite the attempt to use it as a means of communication, the authentic artifacts in the exhibition are actually a hindrance in the communicative process. By relating artefact-focused museum exhibitions to contemporary neo-realistic art installations, the author illustrates the role of the artefacts in the museum exhibition. The article points out how problematic the authentic artefacts are from a practical design perspective, and how the demand for authentic artefacts in the exhibition is actually a convention that limits what the exhibition can achieve as a means of communication.
Udstillingen fortæller. En analyse af Kunsthal Charlottenborgs udstilling Til vægs
Authors: Sørensen Ane Pilegaard
Published: August 2018

The exhibition is often perceived as a narrative medium. The progression through time and space, in addition to the fact that there is both a sender and a recipient of the messages involved, is indicative of the fundamental narrative potential within the exhibition as such. In an era in which the experience economy reigns, there are the beginnings of a recognition of the advantages of letting the exhibition unfold as a meaningful and enthralling narrative. However, in addition to serving as a tool for presentation, this narrative perspective can also serve as a tool for analysis. Using the exhibition Til vægs, held at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, Denmark, as source, an analysis of the complex narrative structure of the exhibition is carried out. On the basis of theories about the exhibition as a nar- rative medium and of Roland Barthes’ structuralistic narratology, the narrative aspects of the exhibition are considered as a complex network of actors and formations of meaning, distributed over several different planes.
Opponentindlæg: Aarnipuu, Petja: Turun linna kerrottuna ja kertovana tilana (The Turku Castle: Cultural Heritage as Narrative Space)
Authors: Kostet Juhani , Pöysä Jyrki
Published: August 2018

Redan i rubriken till sin doktorsavhandling anger Petja Arnipuu att han studerar ett historiskt monument, Åbo slott, ur olika aspekter. Dels är det frågan om restaureringstänkandets utveckling och dess inflytande på byggnader vi uppfattar som historiska och dels att historien konstrueras genom en serie valsituationer både i byggnads- och restaureringskedet samt i nutiden, när det monumentala byggnadsverket presenteras för besökarna på Åbo slott. I sin tolkning av de olika valsituationerna stöder sig författaren bl.a. på hermeneutikern Paul Ricoeurs postnarratologiska tolkning av den hermeneutiska cirkeln. På en generell nivå tycks Aarnipuu ha formulerat forskningsproblematiken som 1) hur ter sig historien för oss och 2) hur konstrueras tidslighet som en del av våra kulturminnesmärken?
Indhold og nye medlemmer
Authors: Larsen Ane Hejlskov
Published: August 2018

Museologen Marc Maure sendte i 2008 et for- slag til redaktionen om at vælge udstillingsmediets historie, dets form, æstetik og indhold som et kommende tema for Nordisk Museologi. Redaktionen fandt temaet godt og yderst relevant for Nordisk Museologi og koncentrerer derfor dette og det kommende nummer (nr. 2) om det.
Den skjulte Oldtid – den nye udstilling på Nationalmuseet
Authors: Ingemann Bruno
Published: August 2018

The newly opened Danish National Museum permanent exhibition about the prehistoric period is analysed here from the perspective of the user. The intended narrative of the exhibition is scrutinised in detail, via an analytical construction of how the exhibition meets the visitor, in order to understand why the exhibition at first impression seems so old-fashioned and out of time. The focus in the additional material from the museum is on “... life in Denmark...”, and this point of view is promising, but also ends in disappointment. There is so little life in the exhibition that there is only very limited potential for young visitors to explore anything surprising. This is thought-provoking, considering that this exhibition may well be a permanent fixture for the next thirty years.
Adriaan de Jong: Die Dirigenten der Erinnerung. Musealisierung und Nationalisierung der Volkskultur in den Niederlanden 1815 – 1940
Authors: Stoklund Bjarne
Published: August 2018

Denne mursten af en bog på 700 sider og næsten to kilo tung behandler et lille hjørne af museernes brogede historie gennem to århundreder. Scenen er Holland, og hovedaktøren er det nederlandske frilandsmuseum i Arnhem, grundlagt 1912, men perspektivet er udvidet til at omfatte folkekulturens rolle i den musealiserings- og nationaliseringsproces, som følges fra grundlæggelsen af det hollandske kongerige i 1815 og frem til den tyske besættelse i 1940. Undersøgelsen er blevet til som led i forskningen ved museet i Arnhem, og den er forfatterens doktordisputats, som forelå på originalsproget i 2001. Siden da er bogen udsendt i 2. udgave på hollandsk, og på initiativ af etnologerne i Münster blev der foranstaltet en uforkortet tysk udgave, som i 2007 kunne udsendes som et bind i deres skriftrække. Det viser, at bogen har haft bud til læsere ud over en snæver faglig kreds. De tider er da også forbi, hvor museumshistorie var noget, der udspillede sig inden for institutionens egne mure. I dag ses museerne og deres slægtninge, de store udstillinger, som centrale fænomener i de processer, som formede det moderne Europa.
International conference in Helsinki ponders accessibility
Authors: Anttila Elina , Salovaara Sari , Tokila Leena
Published: August 2018

Making Cultural Heritage Truly Inclusive – Prospects of Accessibility in Nordic Museums 11–12 October 2007, the National Museum of Finland.This article focuses on questions that emerged at the ”Making Cultural Heritage Truly Inclusive” conference, which was held in Helsinki on 11–12 October 2007. The theme of the conference was the Nordic principle of equality as seen in relation to the cultural heritage sector. The participants numbered about 140 cultural heritage workers from the Nordic countries and elsewhere in Europe. In addition to representatives of the museum sector, the invited speakers included future researchers and policy makers. At the conference, museums were seen as exerting a social influence. The first part of the conference examined accessibility strategies and the challenges and expectations they engendered in the projected Nordic future. The second part dealt with the potential of the shared Nordic cultural heritage for reflecting a multicultural society. The third part of the conference focused on future challenges, which were identified as including virtual communities for young people, and the importance of considering an ageing population. The conference was part of the Tillgänglig- hetsnätverk för museer i Norden (Accessibility networks for museums in the Nord- ic countries) project, which, over the past few years, has been creating a cooperation network to enable Nordic culture sector organisations that are interested in accessibility issues to exchange experiences.
Museumsutdanning i Norge – eksisterer det?
Authors: Frøyland Merethe
Published: August 2018

Det har lenge vært et ønske i Norge om en grunnutdanning og et samordnet etterutdanningstilbud innen museumsområdet, slik biblioteksektoren har. Både den offentlige utredningen (NOU) fra 1996, Museum – mangfold, minne, møteplass og de følgende Stortingsmeldingene som omhandler museumsfeltet, etterlyser slik utdanning. Behovet for museumsfaglig kompetanse har ikke blitt mindre etter at Museumsreformen ble satt i gang i 2002. Museumsreformen er en statlig storsatsning på museumsfeltet som har bidratt til at museumslandskapet i Norge har endret seg betydelig disse årene, fra over 250 museer med indirekte statlig driftstilskudd, til ca. 100 museer med direkte statlig driftstilskudd i 2006 over Kultur- og kirkedepartementets (KKD) budsjett. Målet med reformen er å etablere sterkere fagmiljøer som vil styrke museene som aktive og aktuelle arenaer for kunnskap og opplevelse. Det betyr at museene har behov for ansatte med en museumsfaglig kompetanse som gjør dette mulig. På grunn av reformen har behovet for museumsfaglig utdanning blitt enda sterkere.
Cultural Heritage and Ownership
Authors: Ren Carina , Guldberg Mette
Published: August 2018

Ph.d.-seminar arrangeret i et samarbejde mellem forskerskolerne MAST og Kulturarvens forskerskole. Syddansk Universitet, Campus Esbjerg, 20.-22. november 2006. On 20-22 November 2006, a PhD seminar on cultural heritage and ownership was arranged by the Research School for Studies in Maritime and Coastal Environment, Heritage and Sustainable Tourism (MAST) and the Danish Research School of Cultural Heritage. The seminar was hosted by the University of Southern Denmark, Campus Esbjerg and aimed at presenting different perspectives on cultural heritage in current international research. Lecturers and PhDs from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, England, Poland, Portugal and Israel fully demonstrated the broad range of approaches. In spite of a great variety in contributions from history, anthropology, archaeology, ethnology, tourism studies, conservation studies and engineering, many shared themes could be identified, such as how cultural heritage can be (mis)used in both the experience economy and tourism, in the construction of identities and within nation states. Themes such as inclusion and exclusion through selection and classification, the idea of felt and formal ownership, and the notion of authenticity where also discussed. These last 10-20 years have seen an enormous spread of the notion of cultural heritage and its very broad use, to the point where an adequate definition no longer seems possible. Even though emphasis on our historic inheritance can be positive, it is also cruci- al to undertake scholarly debate and discus why and how the notion is used and applied. The contributors to the seminar, both lecturers and PhDs, managed to demonstrate that scholarly diversity is no obstacle to mutual inspiration and fruitful contributions to a shared, critical stance in the field of cultural heritage.
Sten Rentzhog: Friluftsmuseerna – En skandinavisk idé erövrar världen
Authors: Sjöberg-Pietarinen Solveig
Published: August 2018

De senaste åren har friluftsmuseerna ägnats olika slag av forskar- och förläggarintresse. Ut över sedvanliga guideböcker och historiker över ett enskilt museum kan AEOM:s, Association of European Open Air Museums, konferensrapporter nämnas bland de tidigaste publikatio- nerna som behandlar friluftsmuseer ur professionell synpunkt. De innehåller diskussionsinlägg i aktuella frågor för våra friluftsmuseer och källmaterial för vidare forskning. AEOM inledde sin verksamhet med ett möte i Bokrijk 1966. Den första mötesrapporten publicerades 1972. Den innehåller bl.a. förbundets stadgar och dess definition av begreppet friluftsmuseum. Ett friluftsmuseum definieras som en helhetsinriktad anläggning som står under vetenskapligt överinseende med samlingar bevarade under bar himmel.
Naturvidenskabernes kanonisering. Forskere, erkendelser eller kulturarv
Authors: Nielsen Kristian Hvidtfelt
Published: August 2018

This paper concerns recent official attempts to place science in Denmark within the context of a cultural canon. Based on differentiation between Mode 1 and 2 knowledge production, the paper points out that such attempts are highly contextualised and contingent on their different modes of application. Consequently, they entangle scientific expertise with other social skills and qualifications. Like science museums and science centres, they are a means of dealing with science in the public agora, i.e. the public sphere in which negotiations, mediations, consultations and contestations regarding science increasingly take place. Analysing the ambiguities and uncertainties associated with the recent official placing of science within an overall cultural canon for Denmark, this paper concludes that even though the agora embodies antagonistic forms of interaction, it might also lead the way to producing socially robust knowledge about science.
Om mursten og minder, gråd og globalisering
Authors: Pedersen Kristine Munkgård
Published: August 2018

Konferencen “Emotional Geography”, Aarhus Universitet, Århus 2. november 2006.Ten speakers from a range of academic fields were invited to discuss the concept of Emotional Geography and to debate how spaces change as a result of contemporary culture, globalisation and the experience economy.The conference touched upon a broad variety of empirical cases from within tourism, art, branding, urban studies and media studies. The theoretical framework was also broad, extending from phenomenology to Actor Network Theory and Heidegger’s concept of Dwelling.
Konferanse: Nodem 06: Nordic Digital Excellence in Museums
Authors: Slaatta Tore
Published: August 2018

The article reports from NODEM 06, the Nordic Digital Excellence in Museums Conference, which was held in Oslo on 7–9 December 2006. The NODEM conference was set up to promote interaction and learning enhanced by technology and digital design in museums.The conference had an impressive, ambitious programme and proved to be a successful meeting involving Nordic and International scholars from a total of 13 countries, museum researchers and curators, hardware and software developers, designers, consultants and students from a wide range of academic fields, institutions and organisations. Keynote speakers from the EPOCH network, and from the field of digital museum design in Ireland and Australia, were invited, and research papers about 30 ongoing projects featuring digital mediation in museums were presented, with a critical focus that provided a thorough presentation and discussion of the main contributions and themes.
Finlands nya museilag och -förordning – museologins genombrott
Authors: Vilkuna Janne
Published: August 2018

Finlands nya uppdaterade museilag och -förordning trädde i kraft den 1 januari 2006. För museologer är det anmärkningsvärdaste att grundstudier i museologi nu nämns som ett kompetenskrav för museiyrket. I det följande beskrivs museiförfattningarnas utveckling från 1960-talet till nuet.
At begribe det uhåndgribelige – og beskytte det
Authors: Daugbjerg Mads
Published: August 2018

Konference om den immaterielle kulturarv 8. december 2005, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, København.UNESCO-konventionen fra 2003 om beskyttelse af verdens immaterielle kulturarv står foran en eventuel ratificering i Danmark. Men hvad skal man overhovedet forstå ved begrebet ’immateriel kulturarv’, som udvider det i forvejen vagt definerede kulturarvsbegreb, og giver det mening at ville sikre og beskytte den immaterielle arv på linje med den fysiske? Konferencen afholdt i København i december 2005 søgte at reflektere over nogle grundlæggende, opklarende spørgsmål til den nye konvention i form af oplæg fra en række kulturforskere.
Orvar Karlbeck på skattjakt: Historien bakom Östasiatiska museets svenska kinasamlingar
Authors: Johansson Perry
Published: August 2018

Östasiatiska museets grundare har under senare tids diskussioner om smuggling från tredje världens framställts som ett etiskt föredöme. Den här artikeln visar på en annan sida av museets samlande. För att fylla det nya svenska museet skickas under största hemlighet den arkeologiska ”hit-mannen” Orvar Karlbeck till Kina för att under 1930-talet handla, rovgräva och smuggla, hela tiden uppbackad av pennings- timma svenska konsortier.
Dispensing with formalities in art education research
Authors: Pierroux Palmyre
Published: August 2018

This article investigates how high school students master and appropriate concepts in aesthetics and modern art in art history classes and in art museums. It is argued that distinctions between schools and museums as places of formal and informal learning, respectively, are not useful analytical categories for understanding complex meaning making processes.
”Nok se – men også røre”. ”HANDS ON” som formidlingsstrategi på arkæologiske museer
Authors: Lønstrup Gitte
Published: August 2018

British Museum fejrede sit 250 års jubilæum i 2003 med den spektakulære udstilling ”The Enlightenment Gallery”. I Nordisk Museologi (2004: Nr. 2) analyserede David Anderson det intellektuelle felt omkring denne udstilling. Denne artikel vil dreje sig om det fysiske handlerum mellem udstillingens fire vægge. Med udgangspunkt i konceptet ”Hands On” skildres de formidlingsmæssige muligheder og begrænsninger, der opstår, idet man forener sanselighed med refleksion – Hands On med Minds On.
Følelser, ting og museologi
Authors: Strandgaard Ole
Published: August 2018

At der er en nær sammenhæng mellem tingene og museologien turde være velkendt. At der er følelser med i spillet kan heller ikke komme bag på andre end teknokraterne. Kærlighed til tingene har formentlig været den største drivkraft overhovedet i museernes udvikling. I dag må du også elske museerne i medgang og modgang, hvis du vil lade disse sære institutioner fulde af ting og tolkninger fylde dit liv. Der ligger også stor kærlighed bag dette nummer af Nordisk Museologi, som er tilegnet Per-Uno Ågren, tidsskriftets hovedredaktør gennem alle årene siden starten i 1993. Ingen vil tro det, men faktum er, at Per-Uno, denne museernes førsteelsker, fylder 75 år! Derfor vil han holde op som redaktør af Nordisk Museologi. At han nu vil være pensionist for alvor kommer som et chok både for vore trofaste læsere – og for den øvrige redaktion, som pludselig lades i stikken med en stor opgave, som Per-Uno hidtil har løst suverænt. Alligevel besluttede vi i redaktionen at sætte redaktøren fra bestillingen et nummer for tidligt, fordi vi gerne ville takke ham for en stor indsats ved for en gangs skyld at lade et nummer tage udgangspunkt i ham selv. Den øvrige redaktion og medlemmer af redaktionsrådet skulle skrive suppleret af artikler fra nogle af Per-Unos nære venner. Nordisk Museologi er Per-Unos kærlighedsbarn. Vi må bede om tilgivelse både fra læserne og fra Per-Uno, hvis dette nummer ikke er plejet så omhyggeligt, som vanligt. Kærlighed har det dog ikke skortet på!
Universal orders in collections of 16th and 17th century Italy
Authors: Aurasmaa Anne
Published: August 2018

Anne Aurasmaa’s article will discuss beauty, harmony and order as expressions of a belief in a living universe and in the connection between the material and the spiritual. This is approached through an examination of 16th and 17th century Italian collections, with help of Marsilio Ficino’s Book of Life. According to Aurasmaa’s interpretation, the sensuous pleasure derived from the study of objects was believed to be a way to relate to, and be in contact with the surrounding world and the heavenly spheres. The symmetrical arrangements of the collections, on the other hand, were visualizations of a belief in the harmonious nature of the ideal universe. The article discusses how principles of universality were represented, how the collecting and organization of things were spiritualized, and, as a consequence, how collecting practices came to be approved by society.
Museologisk Poesi
Authors: Mathiesen Eske K.
Published: August 2018

Digte af Eske K. Mathiesen, dansk digter og folkemindesamler, født 1944. Debut 1975. Talrige digtsamlinger, skønlitterære og faglitterære arbejder. Statens Kunstfonds livsvarige ydelse i 2002. Gennem mange år tilknyttet Dansk Folkemindesamling.
Museologisk poesi
Authors: Hökby Nils-Göran
Published: August 2018

Nils-Göran Hökby (1922-2002) journalist, nyskapande museiman i Gävle och Stockholm, konstpedagog, en av de tidiga tillskyndarna av museipedagogernas förening, Fuism, odlade poesi i dagsversens form, ofta med anknytning till museimiljöer. Verserna, signerade NG, förekom vanligen i Dagens Nyheter (med Hasse Erikssons teckningar). De båda nedanstående fanns även i Svenska Museer 1986.
Om kulturminnets lätthet och tyngd
Authors: Ågren Per-Uno
Published: August 2018

Samhällsminnet byggs upp av de föreställningar, erfarenheter, förmågor, kunskaper och drömmar som delas av samhällsmedlemmarna och som finns i deras levande minne, styr deras beteende, attityder och reaktioner. Samhällsminnet lagras också i texter, materialiseras i byggenskap och ting. Varje människas kulturminne är unikt, delaktigheten i det gemensamma, spontant tillägnad, påtvingad eller förhandlad. Sällan är samhällsminnet homogent, ensartat, ens i små samhällen; det sönderfaller i delkulturer formade i ständigt utbyte mellan individuella och gemensamma minnen. Kulturminnet förlängs och fortlever mentalt och konkret som mångdimensionellt kulturarv. I verbal och visuell transkription kan det återuppsökas, erinras, återupptäckas i text- och bildarkiv, i de fysiska verklighetsspåren.
Om ljud i utställningar
Authors: Jonsson Heléne
Published: August 2018

Notes on the use of sound in exhibitions This text discusses how sound is used in exhibitions, and the problems that arise when it is used. The text includes an examination of four exhibitions analyzing how sound was used. The article presents a model, based on theoretical approaches developed in studies of sound in films, music and soundscapes, which attempts to answer questions about the advantages and disadvantages of the use of sound in exhibitions.
Artiklar om begreppet kulturarv i tidigare nummer av Nordisk Museologi
Authors: Ågren Per-Uno
Published: August 2018

Further reading on cultural heritage available in Nordisk Museologi
Frizon och lagrum – världsarv och riksintresse som kulturmiljö och tillväxtpotential
Authors: Bäckström Mattias
Published: August 2018

Free space and legal space This article takes as its point of departure in the distinction made by André Groz between legal space and free space, the former being of a material nature defined by authorities and legal regulations, the latter im- material, upheld by common practice among citizens representing cultural values in the environment that transcend institutionally applied borders. Historical and aesthetic values are often an important part of the free space, accordingly authorities and agencies defending cultural values related to specific sites – even when they are legally founded – often find themselves in conflict with other agencies in charge of the economic devel- opment of the community. This conflict, which causes dilemmas in political decision making, is demonstrated using two examples, both very important motorway construction projects, one in the southwest of Sweden, the other in the north of the country, both touching on areas with great historical significance. According to environmental legislation a developer must ask permission to realize his project and must state the consequences of his landuse. When there are conflicting interests in the area the developer is obliged to present an analysis of the consequences and suggest how the damage caused to these conflicting interests may be reduced. This is generally done by presenting alternative sitings for the road. Although in these exmples the road projects touched upon areas that are declared World Heritage Sites it is shown that the values asserted by antiquarian authorities are given a very low rating compared to alternatives representing economic gains. The economic gains are measurable and have a limited time horizon but they count for more than cultural values which are immeasurable.
Hur berättar en utställning?
Authors: Kempe Lova
Published: August 2018

This article discusses three different exhibitions of costumes. The objective of the discussion has been to increase our understanding of how exhibitions work and the different stories they tell visitors. The perspective has been to concentrate on the exhibitions themselves, encountering them hermeneutically as stories in their own right. By analysing the exhibitions as they stand, open as well as hidden stories and messages have been found, in terms of more or less conscious metastories as well as stereotypes. Metanarratives influence visitors’ comprehension of the messages of exhibitions without explicitly making their points. Also, the way exhibitions rely on previous knowledge influence what visitors may understand. As a whole, an exhibition can strengthen or create stereotype images not only of its subject matter but also of more general issues, and thereby give visitors notions about cultural heritage and the character of the past.
Spejl på væggen – om selvrefleksionens variationer i Museum 2000
Authors: Hjorth Line
Published: August 2018

Museet er tingenes og materialernes sted, hverdagens, teknikkens, kunstens og naturens magasin, som det traditionelt set er opgaven at tage vare på, undersøge og gøre tilgængelige for offentligheden. Mindre etableret er opfattelsen, at museerne selv producerer et materiale. Betragter man imidlertid samme institutioners formålsparagraffer, registreringskort, udstillinger, pr-materiale, seminarer, konferencer og stemmer i den offentlige debat som et særligt museologisk stof, og lader man i forlængelse heraf andre symbolske og imaginære betydningsprocesser tælle med som f.eks. de uendelige kæder af fortolkning og erfaring alt dette fører med sig, så tegner der sig et rids af museet som andet og mere end en skal til opbevaring og ordning af verden udenfor. Dertil kommer produktion af viden, den grundsten, museet traditionelt har bygget på fra de første private samlinger og offentlige institutioners fremkomst. Museer er selv betydningsproducenter og manifesterer sig som medier med egne faglige og værdimæssige forudsætninger, mål og interesser.
Återlämning av isländska föremål från Danmark 1930
Authors: Torgrímsdóttir Anna Torbjörg
Published: August 2018

I juni månad 1930 firade islänningarna Alltingets 1000-årsjubileum. Före själva ceremonin träffade Danmarks statsminister, Thorvald Stauning, sin isländska kollega, Tryggvi Thórhallsson och överlämnade, som en jubileumsgåva, ca 150 museiföremål ur Danmarks Nationalmuseum, eller hälften av museets samling av isländska förhistoriska och medeltida föremål.
Tilbage til Færøerne
Authors: Thorsteinsson Arne
Published: August 2018

Ved en overdragelsesceremoni på Føroya Fornminnissavn den 26. juli 2002 blev henved et par hundrede museumsgenstande fra det danske Nationalmuseums samlinger overdraget Færøernes Nationalmuseum. Blandt disse genstande er det enestående middelalderlige kirkeinventar fra Færøernes bispesæde i Kirkjubøur. Kirkeinventaret betragtes i dag som Færøernes største nationale klenodie, og med overdragelsen opfyldtes et længe næret og mange gange fremsat færøsk ønske.
The Spiral: Extension to the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Authors: Libeskind Daniel
Published: August 2018

The Spiral Extension to the Victoria & Albert Museum shares in the spirit of the twin inscriptions carved on Cromwell Tower Entrance, ”Inspiration” and ”Knowledge”, and carries that message into the concrete space and content of the new extension. The building goes beyond the habitual division between programme and history, form and function, architecture and engineering, by offering new possibilities within the horizon of an evolving cultural and educational resource. The Spiral is not just another box filling an empty lot, but a celebration of public activities in a unique historical setting. The building represents a new awareness of the central role of contemporary museology, technology, arts and crafts, in sustaining tradition and education in a spectacular cultural setting, central not only to London, but to Europe as a whole.
The cultural significance of the Spiral
Authors: Anderson David
Published: August 2018

Such is its creative force, the Spiral exists in ways that are more real than many contemporary buildings that have already been built and stand unnoticed. The Victoria and Albert Museum’s thinking and its programmes are being drawn forward by the Spiral’s gravitational pull. The Spiral cannot now be unthought, and the Museum moves in response to the momentum it has generated.
’’Museum 2000 – Confirmation or challenge’’
Authors: Goa David J.
Published: August 2018

An international conference ’’Museum 2000 – Confirmation or challenge’’ took place in Stockholm in June 2001. It was the summation of a series of regional seminars on the same topic arranged at Härnösand, Lidköping, Norrköping, Uddevalla and Helsingborg. David J. Goa, Curator of Folklife at the Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, was one of the keynote speakers of the conference. Afterwards he has offered the following sentences,’’Reflections on Conversations on Museums and Pluralism’’.
Post-Modernism and the Three Generations of Museums
Authors: Kjeldbaek Esben
Published: August 2018

Ten years ago visiting museums in Normandy I had an experience that keeps coming back. It was not just that the war museums in Calais and Caen were very different from each other. Rather, each seemed to represent an extreme version of how museums begin and eventually reach a sort of evolutionary peak. This difference comes to mind every time postmodern museum criticism tells me that old museums are keepers of (usually harmful) myth, and that new ones must therefore self-critically deconstruct nationalist beliefs and themselves promote humanitarian values and even repentance in general.
Repræsentation eller belæring?
Authors: Hein Jørgen
Published: August 2018

Status versus Learning? Schatzkammer or Kunstkammer? In the 1660s Danish absolutism built up a treasure collection at Rosenborg Castle and a Kunstkammer opposite Copenhagen Castle. both of which contained applied art. It is the aim of this paper to trace this overlapping and to show that around 1690 principles were established for a division of objects that resulted in the two institutions becoming mutually supplementary. In other words the subject is royal heritage and royal collecting 1520–1920. A comparison calls for definitions. A ’treasure collection’ refers to an accumulation of valuable objects that is arranged with pomp and splendour. Three characteristics should be highlighted: the Prince or his official has the key to the collection, the objects are partially entailed as inalienable property, and viewing requires the permission of the sovereign. A ’Kunstkammer’ in this context means a collection of objects that are classified and displayed according to distinct principles which reflect human knowledge and theories about the surrounding world. Consequently the treasury represents and can provide, in time of emergency, a capital reserve, whereas the fundamental concept of the Kunstkammer is the structuring and imparting of knowledge as expressed in the publication of catalogues.
Bruno Ingemann og Ane Hejlskov Larsen (red.): Ny dansk museologi
Authors: Maure Marc
Published: August 2018

Generelt sett er det alltid en positiv begiven- het å få i hendene en ny bok om museologi forfattet av skandinaviske kolleger. I dette tilfellet dreier det seg om en publikasjon som inneholder et mangfold av temaer, eksempler og perspektiver, og som uttrykker nysgjerrighet, kreativitet og lyst til eksperimentering. Derfor ble det en stor glede for meg å lese den.
Tankar kring det "museologiska företaget"
Authors: Smeds Kerstin
Published: August 2018

Some reflections on «the museologicalproject» Firstly, this article provides a very brief survey of the discussion about museology as a «field of research and study», a debate which has been going on among ICOFOM-members for the last twenty to thirty years. ICOFOM was founded in 1976 in answer to demands from the field of museum practice, which changed radically in the 1970s. Since that time the crucial question has been: Is museology a discipline or is it not? What is the object of knowledge and the subject of research in museology?
The restoration of a Bell P-39Q Airacobra aircraft
Authors: Valtonen Rauni , Valtonen Hannu
Published: August 2018

On June17,1944 a formation of four - according to some sources five - Bell P-39Q fighter aircraft lost their bearings. The great Soviet offensive on the Karelian Isthmus was in progress and the weather was cloudy and rainy. The formation in which the Airacobra «26», the subject of this restoration report, flew got lost and split up. The Russian regiment to which the fighters were attached is not known but the higher command is thought to be the 2nd Leningrad Guards Fighter Corps (II Gv.IAK). One of the aircraft landed some six kilometres north-west of Jantama village at Syväri, another at Pätsinsuo in Ylä-Uuksu in Salmi parish, north-east of Lake Ladoga (P-39Q-15-BE, USAAF 44-2664, No. «26») and two at Pikkusuo in Marinkylä in lnkeroinen (P-39Q-20-BE, USAAF 44-3255 No. «25» and P-39Q-15.BE, USAAF 44-2092 No. «20»). The fighters were a part of the U.S. war material aid to the Soviet Union. An enormous number of Airacobras was delivered, in total 5 707 aircraft.
Historien i hovedet, monumentet på kroppen - overvejelser om identifikation og autenticitet
Authors: Paludan-Müller Carsten
Published: August 2018

History imagined and history as monuments and space - some reflections The paper discusses the difference in experiencing past realities indirectly and directly. Either these realiries are represented verbally and visually to be read, viewed - and imagined. Or they are directly available to all senses in the physical surroundings, as remaining monuments and buildings. Partly available they are exhibited in museums as material objects. It is further argued that there is a fundamental difference between the multisensory experience of entering the genuine historical space of a church or walking the streets of an old well-preserved town or village and studying the representations offered in museums where the objects are combined with texts and supporting visuals. The author points to the significant role monuments from the past have played through history in stimulating and shaping aesthetic taste and architectural ideas, from the Renaissance and the Baroque to the historicism of the 19th century. Monuments have served both as a counterpoint to modernity and as a Well of Time through which we perceive bygone realities.
Museologisk poesi
Authors: Martinson Harry
Published: August 2018

Tidskrifren Spektrum utkom i Sverige åren 1931-1933 som ett organ samtidigt för estetisk modernism och politisk radikalism.
Kenneth Hudson: "Museums are a growth industry"
Authors: Hofrén Erik
Published: August 2018

År 1980 utkom Kenneth Hudsons The Good Museums Guide. Med hjälp av sina korrespondenter, som var och en anges vid namn och således står för sina personliga omdömen, ger sig Kenneth Hudson utpa de brittiska öarna för att där finna de bästa 400 av vid denna tid existerande cirka 1 600 museer och gallerier.
Viborgs museum – museet hemsökt av krig
Authors: Malmisalo Anne-Maija
Published: August 2018

The Vyborg Museum - How the War Affected the Museum and its ObjectsThe Vyborg Museum was founded in 1893 and opened to the public in 1895. Over 50 years later the museum found itself facing a new situation. On November 31, 1939 the Soviet Union started a war against Finland. The Vyborg Museum only managed to evacuate one fifth of the museum objects to Rauralampi and Hameenlinna before the war broke our. The museum board made a list of the most valuable objects to be sent away most urgently.
Världen som verklighet, föreställning och virtualitet
Authors: Ågren Per-Uno
Published: August 2018

Manniskors föreställningar om världen utom synhåll i tid och rum frambesvärjs av de medier for kommunikation som står till förfogande vid olika tider, på olika platser, i olika samhällen. Språkögat, som aktiverar minne och fantasi, satts i rörelse i det språkliga umgänget människor emellan och skapar de inre föreställningsvärldar som sedan människoblivandets tid varit grunden för vår kulturella kompetens.
Museerna på den digitala scenen
Authors: Ågren Per-Uno
Published: August 2018

Museums on the digital stage In Sweden a recent State Report has proposed the establishment of a digital Cultural network ('Kulturnat Sverige') on the Internet. In the preparation of the Report several hearings were arranged in 1996, among them one about the usefulness of such a network for museums. This text was written for that occasion.
Time, dreams and museology: We are akk museologists now
Authors: Anderson David
Published: August 2018

Sometimes I have this nightmare. I am in a world where certain people (museologistst have taken to themselves the right and power to identify and attribute meaning to objects on behalf of society. Also, the people with this power believe that their task is to tell people what they should know rather than to encourage them to think and learn for themselves about their past, present and future. Also, that museology is defined by museologists as what they do within the buildings they control - rather as if psychology were to be only what psychologists do in mental hospitals. Unfortunately, this particular nightmare happens to be some kind of reality as well.
Kring Riksutställningars seminarier och Ekomuseibegreppet
Authors: Olofsson Ulla-Lena Keding
Published: August 2018

The international development of the ecomuseum concept as reflected by Riksutställningar. Ulla Keding Olofsson who had served Riksutställningar for 23 years from the very start of the institute, was granted the opportunity to organise a seminar according to her own wishes when she retired in 1965. Before then she had been responsible for the series of international seminars which had taken place at Riksutställningar in Stockholm from 1973 and onwards. A complete list of the seminars and topics is added to the text which she herself offered as an introduction to the seminar in her honour. It took place on May 30 and 31 1996.