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”Museumsmænd og deres skidne tøi”
Authors: Gjestrum John Aage
Published: August 2018

Museumsforbundet ble til for å forsone «central- og lokalmuseer» Når vi nå 75 år etterpå skal forsøke å forstå hva det var som skedde, kan det være riktig å se dannelsen av museumsforbundet som et kompromiss mellom til da sterkt motstridende og tydelig formulerte oppfatninger av hva et museum i Norge skulle være. Samtidig var en museumsprofesjon under etablering og ville sikre sitt grep på museene.
Utstilling av levende mennesker. En historie om samisk kultur og fremmede blikk
Authors: Gjestrum John Aage
Published: August 2018

I Rørosregionen kjenner vi ei sørsamisk befolkningsgruppe langt bakover i tid. Samene har da også sammen med andre i Rørosregionen deltatt i den lokale museumsvirksomhet, – samene markerte seg her spesielt aktivt i tida fra like før 1950 og framover til ut på 1960-tallet. Min overraskelse var derfor stor då jeg fant Rørossamer som midtpunkt i Londons museumsverden allerede for mer enn 190 år siden – før vi hadde museer i Norge i det hele tatt. Og det var ikke bare deres særpregede kultur i form av gjenstander og miljø som ble utstilt – nei en hel samefamilie var også satt på utstilling. Hva var det som skjedde? Nysgjerrigheten bragte meg videre i å studere fenomenet med å sette levende mennesker på utstilling. Artikkelen handler om dette. Den sier også noe om datidas oppfatning av samene.
Jeg husker deg, John Aage ...
Authors: Maure Marc
Published: August 2018

Siste gang jeg så deg, John Aage, var den 28. mars i fjor. Det var sent på kvelden og vi satt på kaféen til det tidligere Lenin Museum i byen Krasnojarsk i det indre av Sibir. Vår venn Vladimir, leder for organisasjonen Memorial, hadde lenge fortalt oss om Sibirs tragiske fortid, og om sitt trøstesløse arbeid med å redde minnene fra GULAG-øyriket fra glemselen, som hadde hatt så stor utstrekning her i regionen. Jeg så på deg, og jeg skjønte at du følte som meg, at meningen med det internasjonale samarbeidet nå hadde fått en ny dimensjon, at det var en forpliktelse å engasjere seg og hjelpe til med dokumentasjonen av de mørke sidene ved det 20. århund- rets historie.
John Aage Gjestrums tryckta skrifter
Authors: Ågren Per-Uno
Published: August 2018

Bibliografin är sammanställd på grundval av listor ställda till förfogande av John Aage Gjestrums hustru Elisabeth Nordengen samt en publikationslista som John Aage själv upprättat 1992. Titlarna är ordnade i huvudgrupperna Bøker, Artikler (med undergrupperna Årboka TOTN, Museumsnytt, Nordisk Museologi och Øvrige artikler), Plandokumenter och Foredrag. Inom varje grupp redovisas titlarna kronologiskt.
Det problematiske mangfold
Authors: Nilsen Gørill
Published: August 2018

Recent years have brought a greater focus on the need for museums to reflect the multi-cultural society of which they are a part. In Sweden, Norway and the EU, this has resulted in the designation of special years to laud the idea of cultural diversity. This article describes how the Nord-Troms Museum in Norway has worked to present the cultural history of Norwegians, Kvens and the Sami people. The museum has focused its presentation work on buildings and artefacts that represent particular features of ethnicity. At the same time, the museum is attempting to challenge the usual perceptions and stereotypical thinking associated with what is considered characteristic or typical for such features. However, there are political and organisational implications associated with working within a cultural history context in which a majority population (the Norwegians), an indigenous people (the Sami) and a national minority (the Kvens) all have their place. The background for the Norwegian state’s understanding of what constitutes cultural diversity in practice does not necessarily coincide with the views held by the Sami Parliament of Norway, or the organisations representing the Kvens. These implications make museum work that focuses on such issues into quite a challenge.
The crisis in the Finnish Data. Processing Museum Association – a practical use of museality
Authors: Tittonen Emmi
Published: August 2018

Abstract: The history of computers is short, but very important in regard to today’s society. There are several computer museums in the world but only one computer museum association in Finland. The Finnish museum association’s collection of computers was in jeopardy of being totally broken up in 2007. However, this internationally important collection was saved via a move to new storage facilities and the rebuilding of the collection. This article describes the story of a museum as- sociation that has collected the most important computers in Finnish IT history and the crisis it went through in order to continue its work.
Båten som bär kulturen
Authors: Lundberg Ulla-Lena
Published: August 2018

Ulla-Lena Lundberg er født 1947 på Ålandsøerne. Hun er uddannet som antropolog, og det sætter et særligt præg på hendes forfatterskab, der spænder fra det lokale til det globale. Hovedværket er en søfartstriologi fra Åland, der skildrer de store samfunds- mæssige og mentalitetsmæssige ændringer fra midten af 1800-tallet til nutiden. Det er kulturarvsproblematik, som her fremlægges i en kraftfuld prosastil. Dette tema er også det underliggende i romanen Regn, der foregår i Afrika og i parallelle forløb skildrer en buskmand i fortiden og en frivillig ulandsarbejder i nutiden
Inge Adriansen og Peter Dragsbo (red.): Sønderjysk kulturarv. Sønderjyske museer 2003-04
Authors: Lund Niels D.
Published: August 2018

Det tog i Danmark en del år før kulturarvsbegrebet fra Museumsloven i 1984 for alvor blev aktiveret, men samtidig med at det i de seneste år så er gået stærkt for dette sesam-begreb såvel inden for museumsverdenen som på hele den offentlige kulturelle dagsorden, må man også konstatere at der ikke har været mange principielle eller teoretiske drøftelser af det på tryk. Derfor er bogen Sønderjysk kulturarv et velkomment bud, til dato måske den mest konsekvente udfoldelse af den nyere kulturarvstænkning. Bag den årbogagtige titel gemmer sig en tematisk ordnet antologi med en række informative artikler og væsentlige perspektiver på flere ledder; konkret er det fra afsenderside en start på at omlægge den så velkendte museumsårboggenre i retning af en mere både fleksibel, sammenhængende og udadvendt type skriftrække.
Museumsforskning som museumsutvikling
Authors: Johansen Anders
Published: August 2018

Museum studies as museum development This text points to the strategic value of museological studies for the development of the museum sector. In Norway, the museum is the sole exception to the rule that a medium or a cultural institution of any importance be regarded as an academic field of study. Lacking the kind of systematic knowledge, critical reflection and discussion of basic premises which normally originate in independent outsider positions, Norwegian museums are consequently deprived of a vital stimulus. In the case of the university museums, the absence of attention to common, specifically museum related problems is seen as an obstacle to che development of coherent institutions out of the various scientific disciplines. In a wider perspective, museums are seen as being not fully established within the cultural public sphere. The enviable attention paid to other kinds of cultural products partly depends on university courses furnishing critics, reviewers and debaters with descriptive languages, analytical skills and evaluative standards. Without these courses, and without the research activity chat makes chem possible, even literature, painting, and film would miss che kind of qualified conversations that actually mediate between creative activity and the interests of a wider public. Hence the establishment of a museological field of research is seen as a precondition for comparable activities highlighting museum events, pointing out their more or less interesting problematics and their possible relevance to society.
Kunstmuseets utstillingspraksis. Om formidlingsdebatter og presentasjonsmåter
Authors: Gjendem Camilla
Published: August 2018

Exhibition practices in art museums The text is taken from a thesis for a Master of Arts degree which the author presented in 1990 at Bergen University, Norway. The first part (chapter 3 of the thesis) deals with the German art historian Alexander Dorner (1893-1957), who was director of the Landesmuseum in Hannover from 1923 to 1936. He devoted himself to a methodical renewal of the art exhibitions in his museum in close cooperation with Walter Gropius and the artists of the Bauhaus group at Weimar. Both his theoretical background (Hegel, Riegel, Goldschmidt) is described and his conviction that a work of art is basically a historical document and that it must be understood as part of the mentality of its age, not only be seen as an object for aesthetic consumption. His important book Oberwindung der «Kunst», published in 1947 (during his exile in New York) is presented as well as his exhibitions in the Hannover museum, of which Das abstrakte Kabinett produced with El Lissitzky and Raum der Gegenwart have become famous.
De första renässansmuseerna i Rom och Florens
Authors: Palmqvist Lennart
Published: August 2018

The first Renaissance Museums in Rome and Florence This paper argues that the archaeological and antiquarian research by the Renaissance humanists in Rome inspired Pope Sixtus IV to donate a collection of ancient bronzes from the Lateran to the Capitol in 1471. This led to the start of the musealization of the Capitol which culminated in the forming of a historical museum at the Palazzo dei Conservatori during Paul III's pontificate in the 1530s. Paul III's plan for the renewal of the Capitol included the transfer to the Capitoline Hill of the equestrian monument of Marcus Aurelius from the Lateran as well as Michelangelo's new design for the buildings and the piazza.
Et sant og levende bilde av verden; Verdensutstillinger og museumshistorie
Authors: Brenna Brita
Published: August 2018

A true and vividpicture of the world; world exhibitions and museum history Norwegian participarion in Internarional Exhibirions, World Fairs and Expositions Universelles in the last century and its potential relationship to museum history is the subject of this paper. It starts with a juxtaposition of EXP0'98 in Lisbon and the international exhibitions that were arranged in the last century. The juxtaposition highlights how the cultural effects of ideas are transmitted by international exhibitions and how the rationale for such events has changed since the 19th century. This comparison serves as a background for a discussion of the exhibitions of the last century in museological terms. It is argued that there are good reasons for a comparison and for viewing the international exhibitions in the light of the development of museums and museum practice.
Utstillingen som dokumentasjonsform i moderne og postmoderne tider
Authors: Gaard Hilde
Published: August 2018

The Exhibition as Document in Modern and Postmodern Times The aim of this article is to focus on whether we can speak of modern and postmodern exhibitions as two separate categories. What are the main characteristics that separate the postmodern museum exhibition from its former counterpart? The concept of modernity has been perceived in several different ways from the 5th century AD up to the 20th century. Pitt Rivers published «The Evolution of Culture» in 1875. Both this publication and his ethnographical exhibition in Oxford revealed how the concept of modernity had become Darwinist. Man (i.e. European man) had gradually reached higher levels of development, and linear arrangements of artefacts in vast rows (from primitive towards advanced) were intended to verify this Darwinist discourse. His Oxford exhibition can be considered as objectoriented.
Growing from challenge
Authors: Olofsson Elisabet
Published: August 2018

SAMP - the Swedish-African Museum Programme:is a network joining museums in Sweden and in African countrieshelps to establish institutional twinships (not institutional support)encourages concrete actions by museums to change themselveswants to initiate exchange, not aid, in a dialogue between one Swedish museum and another museum in an African country.
Per Raberg (red.): The Life Region. The Social and Cultural Ecology of Sustainable Development.
Authors: Gjestrum Jan Aage
Published: August 2018

Flere års prosjektarbeid ligger bak boka The Life Region som Per Råberg har redigert. Råberg har egentlig gjort langt mer enn å redigere, - han har skrever størstedelen av boka, og han har også gjennom sin virksomhet i Kollegiet för humanistiska ftamtidsstudierved Universiteret i Umeå vært pådriver og organisator for de tre konferansene i Västernorrland, der mange av bidragene i boka ble presentert (Härnösand april 1992, Örnsköldsvik, juni 1992 og juni 1993).
Kenneth Hudson och hans böcker
Authors: Ågren Per-Uno
Published: August 2018

Kenneth Hudson var en obegripligt produktiv författare. Boklistan har nedan återges efter senaste numret av European Museum Forum Magazine (Summer 2000, Number 6), som är ägnat Kenneth Hudsons minne.
Collecting for cultural diversity
Authors: Anderson Margaret
Published: August 2018

On the morning I sat down to begin this paper, Melbourne's daily newspaper, the Age, had chosen to run an interesting combination of stories on its 'Opinion 'page. This is a page towards the back of the first news section of the paper, on which writers, thinkers, or general 'opinion makers' express their views on topical issues, or ideas. There was only one main topic this day - Australia's contested black/white history and the Federal Government's inability to come to terms with it.
Museet i dagens mediesituasjon
Authors: Johansen Anders
Published: August 2018

The museum in today's media context In this article, the properties of a medium are seen as partly determined by the position it holds within a contemporary media formation. As an old medium in a new context, the museum is confronted wich a challenge to adapt and develop comparable to chose confronting the arts with the arrival of photography, or the theater when the cinema was born.
Museums and lifelong learning: The adult dimension
Authors: Chadwick Alan
Published: August 2018

It is worth reminding ourselves that the notion of museums and adult education bodies co-operating together is not unfamiliar. Indeed, the two major Adult Education Reports this century, the Adult Education Committee Final Report (1919) and Adult Education: a plan for development (1973), both considered the roles of museums and adult education providers. In the museums sector, the Report by Sir Henry Miers of 1928 and Sir Frank Markham's Report of 1938 also linked the two roles together, although in the case of the former Report the lack of co-operation between the two sectors was noted.
Crispin Paine (ed.), Godly Things. Museums, Objects and Religion
Authors: Ågren Per-Uno
Published: August 2018

Enligt utgivaren den första samlingen uppsatser som översiktligt söker belysa hur religioner och deras materiella uttryck behandlas i museer. Av de fjorton texterna presenterar de tre första övergripande teman och tekniker, de ovriga är 'case studies' från olika håll i världen.
Kerstin Arcadius: Museum på svenska. Länsmuseerna och kulturhistorien
Authors: Zachrisson Sune
Published: August 2018

Under våren 1997 lade Kerstin Arcadius fram sin avhandling «Museum på svenska» vid etnologiska institutionen i Lund. Länsmuseerna står i centrum. Avhandlingen behandlar hundraårsperioden från 1800-talets mitt till 1940, det skede då ett brett intresse för fornminnen växte fram och hembygdsrörelsen etablerade sig i svenska bygder.
Stefan Bohman: Historia, museer och nationalism
Authors: Maure Marc
Published: August 2018

Å se på museene som uttrykk for - og redskap i - identifikasjonsprosesser knyttet til konstruksjon av en nasjonal kulturarv, er et viktig perspektiv for å ha en bedre forståelse av museumsfenomenet generelt. Hvordan ellers forstå framveksten av nasjonalmuseer som har preget Europa i forrige århundre, og som i dag preger de nye nasjonalstatene som opprettes mange steder i verden, uten å relatere det til behovet for å skape - på godt og vondt - en nasjonal identitet?
Iscensättningens verklighet – om Vera Frenkels installationer, några konstbyggen, och museiutställningars historier
Authors: Lindqvist Katja
Published: August 2018

Installation art and museum exhibition - reality and fiction Two works by the Canadian artist Vera Frenkel, another by Peter Johansson and the Bonk Business Inc exhibition are scrutinized and compared with historical museum displays. The paper argues that Frenkel's and Johansson's installations are opening a dialogue, engaging and stimulating visitors in a way that leave the ironic comment of Bonk Business Inc and the static historic statements of the museum exhibitions far behind. It is to expect - and hope - that impulses from installation art should change the the attitude of the exhibition producers in museums.
An event of curiosity: When a mermaid fake crawled on a TV-screen
Authors: Vainonen Pilvi
Published: August 2018

Curious things can happen when we put together two mysterious mermaid fakes from the South Sea, two imaginary American FBI agents, and an ordinary Finnish museum workaer. In an extraordinary way, this combination gave rise to some clues which led to some detective work concerning the origins of the two mermaid fakes in the National Museum of Finland.
Hvem ejer museumsgenstandene?
Authors: Gilberg Rolf
Published: August 2018

Who owns the museum objects? The paper «Who owns the museum objects?» focuses on who actually decides when and how museum objects are used and in what context. Often it is the curators who decide the meaning of a certain museum object, but not always. Problems caused by management, the economy and the safety of the object might limit the way the curator wants to handle it.
Ecomuseum or community museum? 25 years of applied research in museology and development
Authors: De Varine Hugues
Published: August 2018

The 'applied research' referred to in the following paper was not done by me personally. It is the result of years of practice and innovation by dozens of imaginative professionals, working in the field, with limited means, fighting against the misunderstandings, or even the hostility of the authorities. I have only been an observer, even during my days as general secretary of ICOM. I now keep in touch because I am interested in the new museology as a tool for local and community development, which is my current preoccupation.
Ekomuseet i en framtidsvision
Authors: Bergdahl Ewa
Published: August 2018

The ecomuseums in a vision of the future Museum work, like all work on historical questions, is a matter of relating oneself to the past. Retrospection varies through the ages and varies depending on who you are and the kind of society you are living in.
Ironbridge – from museum to World Heritage Site
Authors: De Haan David
Published: August 2018

Ironbridge wanted to be different. At the very earliest discussions way back in 1964, three years before the Museum Trust was formally set up, ideas had already been floated about radically rethinking what form a museum might take. The Gorge, although derelict, was recognised as being a potential cultural asset making the creation of a New Town possible. By 1964 the new town planners advised that «the industrial remains have significant national interest» and «it will become an important recreation area for the whole region... The north bank ofthe Severn might well be developed to provide the same facilities for recreation as Skansen.» (Dawley New Town Draft Master Plan).
En bibliografi om økomuseer
Authors: Gjestrum John Aage
Published: August 2018

Hugues de Varine, som var den som «oppfant» ordet økomuseum, har beskrevet hvordan dette skjedde (de Varine 1978). Mot slutten av 1960-tallet var det tydelig for stadig flere at det tradisjonelle museet var kommet i ei krise. Det representerte eksklusive deler av befolkningen og syntes å ha mistet betydning som element for samfunnsutviklingen. Samtidig ble de utfordringer menneskeheten stod overfor tydeligere og tydeligere, - både på det sosiale plan med fattigdomsproblemene i store deler av verden og på det økologiske plan, der det nettopp på denne tida ble tydelig at det moderne samfunn var i ferd med å passere naturens talegrenser.
The National Museum of Finland 1916-1996 – From preservation to presentation
Authors: Wäre Ritva
Published: August 2018

The National Museum of Finland was opened to the public in January 1916. This was more than fifty years after the need of a national museum had first been discussed in public in Finland and almost thirty years after the serious planning ofthe museum was started. The construction of the present museum building began in 1905 bypermission of Czar Nicholas II, after years of debates both about the location of the museum and about its architecture. The paper outlines how the architectural concept was developed and how- in face of its ongoing renovation the concern for the museum building as a nationalmonument inevitably comes into conflict with the ideas for the presentation of the collections to a modern public.
Museologisk perle: Erindring om trægulv og tabte tider
Authors: Metz Georg
Published: August 2018

I dagbladet Informations weekend nummer den 6.-7. april skrev George Metz som så ofte for sit «Intermetzo». Causeriet tager sit udgangspunkt i musikoplevelser i Wien, hvis Konzerthaus er af fornem, arkitektonisk-akustisk kvalitet (med trægulv, herafoverskriften). Ligesom Odd Fellow-palteets sal i København, som brændte ned for få år siden. Ingen har indset nødvendigheden af at genopføre OddFellow-palteets sal i sin gamle, fornemme stand.
Gaynor Kavanagh (ed.), Museum Provision and Professionalism
Authors: Ågren Per-Uno
Published: August 2018

Gaynor Kavanagh bildar tillsammans med Susan Pearce och Eilean Hooper-Greenhill den trojka av framstående forskare och lärare som med engagemang, entusiasm och målmedvetenhet gjort Department of Museum Studies vid Leicester-universitetet till Europas ledande institution for utbildning på museiområdet.
Nordic Museology
Authors: Ågren Per-Uno
Published: August 2018

The five Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden - share a common cultural history. Four of them are closely related linguistically. Through the ages they have also been politically linked in a variety of combinations, causing both dramatic confrontations and inspiring nationalistic movements not without bearing on the museum history of the countries. The most lasting political unions were those between Denmark, Iceland and Norway (1380- 1814; Iceland stayed with Denmark until 1944) and between Finland and Sweden (1323-1809). In times of aggression from the 'outside' a loyalty between the Nordic countries based on the common history has also appeared and in the years after 1945 formal organisations have been established to promote cooperation in various fields of common interest.
Esko Aaltonen (1893-1966) – a lifetime of local history
Authors: Lahtonen Hannu
Published: August 2018

Last year was one of celebration, not only of Finland's entry into the European Union but also manifestly of Finnish culture. It was one hundred years since the foundation of the country's first local history society at Lohja. A year before that, on March 9. 1893 a boy who was baptised with the very Finnish name of Esko, was born into the family of a weaving mill worker. Later Esko was to become a major force and pioneer in the local history movement.
Proper objects among other things
Authors: Sandahl Jette
Published: August 2018

Objects are imagined, envisioned, fantasized, talked about - seen sometimes as mental shapes and constructs long before they find material expression. Objects come into being through century-long traditions and continuity, through foresight, labour and care or are created from seemingly divine inspiration. Most objects are made out of necessity. Some are just for fun. Objects are made for trade, for money, some are made only for love. They are bought and sold, exchanged, bartered, given away. They are used, consumed, kept and thrown away. Some are kept, although no longer useful. Objects fill needs. Objects are projections of our needs and desires. They are material externalizations of our needs and desires. They tie together the material and the immaterial world
Objects in the world and objects in museums
Authors: Silvén-Garnert Eva
Published: August 2018

A growing number of museums nowadays collect objects directly from the society of today, from people's homes and places of work. These objects carry with them rich contextual information about how they have been used and arranged, for both practical and symbolic purposes. But when they enter the museum collections their primary and secondary identities seem to change place, and Daddy's birthday present turns into a pair of stockings.
Training of museum personnel in Denmark
Authors: Strandgaard Ole
Published: August 2018

In August 1966 the Danish Association of Cultural History Museums (DKM) held its annual general assembly in Tønder southern Jutland. On that occasion the leader of the museum in Viborg, Peter Seeberg, who is also a well-known modern author stated that he had written to the Minister of Cultural Affairs on behalf of the museums in Northern Jutland and proposed that a school for the training of museum staff should be created in Denmark. In the report from this meeting we find the term Museumshøjskolen usedfor the first time.
Hvad er et museum? En semiotisk undersøkelse
Authors: Brandt Per Aage
Published: August 2018

What is a museum?The paper presents a contrastive analysis of the concept of Museum, and isolates its components: a collection of Objects, a collective Receiver, a historical Sender, a stationary Institution housing the collection and staging the Collection, a professional Staff responsible for research on the objects and retrieval of objects according to a selective Definition of the collection from reference to the historical sender, and finally a strategy of temporary Exposition developed by the same staff.
Om strandvandringer og annen unyttig eksersis
Authors: Løveid Birthe Marie
Published: August 2018

About shore-walks and other idle amusements The author, who is a sculptor and the leader of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen, Norway, looks at the art museum with mixed feelings. The works of art which have attained the status of museum objects have been salvaged from the relentless flow of time. But, alas, many of them are doomed to the store-room or cellar.
Museet som bildningsinstitution. Utredningen "Minne och bildning" och dess remissbehandling
Authors: Rosander Göran
Published: August 2018

The museum as educational institution. A state report and reactions upon it.In spring 1994 a state report on musems was published entitled Memory and education. The objectives and organisation of museums. The report deals with national and state-supported museums. It has been circulated to 150 state agencies, institutions and organizations asking them for comments and opinions. Many have praised the recommendated changes in the report, recommendations which are in part very radical. Among museum professionals however the attitude is markedly sceptical.
Klassikern: Ur hembygdsvård (1914): Kulturskydd och bygdemuséer
Authors: Forsslund Karl-Erik
Published: August 2018

Författaren har inga mellanrubriker i sin bok, avsnitten är enbart numrerade. Det här återgivna utdraget är hämtat ur avsnitten 11-20, s 129-149
Fysik og museum: Hauchs physiske Cabinet
Authors: Andersen Hemming
Published: August 2018

Physics and Museum: Hauch 's physical Cabinet Adam Wilhelm Hauch (1755-1838) was Lord Chamberlain to the Danish King Frederik VI. He aquired a large collection of physical and chemical instruments, a physical cabinet. Here he carried out experiments, subsequently taking part in discussions of the latest scientific discoveries.Many such physical cabinets emerged during the Age of Enlightenment in Europe. Some, such as Hauch's, were used for serious research, others were for entertainment, others again were primarily status symbols.
Fremtidens museumpædagogik – virkelighedsflugt eller forskningsformidling? Et forsvar for den empiriske publikumsforskning
Authors: Meldgaard Inge
Published: August 2018

Museum pedagogics in the future Behaviouristically inspired and empirically founded research into the relationship between visitors and exhibitions has frequently shown that it is possible to talk about typical visitor behaviour, where the visitors are to a large extend controlled by exhibition design.
Museologi och museer
Authors: Ågren Per-Uno
Published: August 2018

I den i Sverige nyligen offentliggjorda statliga utredningen "Minne och bildning. Museernas uppdrag och organisation" (SOU 1994:51) beklagar utredarna det bristfälliga underlag som finns för studiet och bedömningen av museers verksamhet. Alltför få källor kan ge information och kunskap om de system, vari museiväsendet fungerar, om de kraftfält som påverkar och ger innehåll åt verksamheten, om samhällsmedborgarnas förväntningar på och utbyte av museerna.
Klassikeren: Bygningsmuseer
Authors: Sandvig Anders
Published: August 2018

På nyåret 1902 skrev Anders Sandvig (1862-1950) artikkelen vi her gjengir, som et tilsvar pa en avisartikkel av arkeologiprofessor Gabriel Gustafson, den nytilsatte leder for Universitetets Oldsaksamling i Kristiania (Oslo). I artikkelen argumenterte Gustafson mot lokale museer og for Norsk Folkemuseum, ettersom det er «Norges kulturhistorie, ikke Setesdalens eller Gudbrandsdalens» som skal samles. Skulle det ikke lykkes å få alt samlet i ett museum, «så la det bli Østlandet og Vestlandet og Nordlandet på hvert sitt sted. Tre eller fire landsmuseer kan ennu la seg høre, men hundrede - umulig», skrev Gustafson.
Hvorfor opstod folkemuseet? Var det Bernhard Olsens skyld eller lå det i tiden?
Authors: Rasmussen Holger
Published: August 2018

Why did the Danish Folk Museum come into being? Holger Rasmussen has (1979) written a standard biography on Bernhard Olsen (1836-1922), who founded the museum in 1879, opened it in 1885 and in 1901 established the open-air museum, Frilandsmuseet, at Lyngby as a part of the museum. In his paper he asks whether the museum was the product of an age or the creation of a specific personality - Bernhard Olsen.
Museums in Britain and the First World War
Authors: Kavanagh Gaynor
Published: August 2018

As an historian, genealogy has always worried me. I hold the Bible and the legal profession equally responsible for what is, after all an obsession. Those who engage in genealogy usually have something to prove. They search for an unbroken lineage to someone worth being related to and, better still, important. Deviations along the way, such as illegitimacy, can be tolerated as long as they are sufficiently far in the past to be safe to mention. My problem with all this is that genealogy leaves out so much and asks so few questions. Real lives are about so much more than a series of 'begats' and 'begottens '. They are about choices made and not made, political change, feelings and circumstances.
The great European museum
Authors: Hudson Kenneth
Published: August 2018

Recently, I had to spend a few days in the beautiful French town of Dinard, which is a very fine museum in itself I hope you noticed that I said 'museum: not 'museum piece: which would have indicated that Dinard is frozen in the past, with no useful part to play in todays world. Dinard is not like that at all. It is a prosperous, attractive, well-maintained town, which has shown great skill in adapting itself to changing social habits and in makingfull use of its splendid location, on the Atlantic coast, facing St Malo across the estuary of the Rance. King Edward VII loved it and the modern boat-people love it, and in both cases one can understand why.
Kunstens museer, museernes kunst?
Authors: Fischer Erik
Published: August 2018

The Art in Museums, the Art of Museums? Some time in the late twenties my father, wanting to introduce me to the delights of higher civilisation, invited myself, then hardly ten years old, and my somewhat younger cousin to visit the Thorwaldsen Museum. Losing himself in enthusiastic expoundings, my father soon forgot all about time until my candid cousin pulled his sleeve, asking him with evident signs of boredom when does it begin? thus indicating expectations not of aesthetic bliss but of excitements similar to those so very familiar to an already experienced cinéaste.
Våldets estetik. Estetisk praxis, social distinktion och filmbytande unga män
Authors: Bolin Göran
Published: August 2018

Bourdieu, filmswappers and the æsthetics of video nasties The article discusses different ways of arguing cultural value among Swedish Film Swappers. Against a background of theories on caste as a structuring principle for social status, the author discusses on the one hand a countercultural aesthetic strategy aimed at legitimating otherwise illegitimate cultural artifacts such as video nasties (videofilms with graphically explicit depictions of phy- sical violence) by either incorporating them into the legitimate film canon, or by replacing the legitimate canon with a new canon based on such films, and on the other hand a subcultural strategy that refuses to discuss the films in terms of art and legitimacy at all.
Organising geology for display. The museum of the Swedish Geological Survey, 1871-1915
Authors: Nordlund Christer
Published: August 2018

On 15 May 1871 the Museum of the Swedish Geological Survey (SGU) opened its doors to the general public. The new museum halls in the centre of Stockholm were cleaned and famished, and minerals, species of rocks, soil types and fossils arranged in systematic orders. A bust of the founder and former director of SGU, Professor Axel Erdmann (1814-1869), was placed in the ante room, and the high status of the museum confirmed by the presence of representatives of the Swedish government. The geology of Sweden was organised for display and from now on everyone was welcome to witness it for free.
Bevistheden om kulturarven og incitamenter til bevaring
Authors: Federspiel Beate Knuth
Published: August 2018

«Ex præterito, præsens prudenter agit, ni futura actione deturpet» (På fortiden bygger nutidens evne til at skabe fremtiden) Ovenstående citat stammer fra en talemåde, der har været kendt siden antikken.Tredelingen af tiden i fortid - nutid - fremtid blev i middelalderlig moralfilosofi parallelliseret til de menneskelige egenskaber hukommelse, som erforudsætningen for at bevare (mindet om) fortiden - intelligens, som rummer evnen til at erkende nutiden, og - fremsyn, som sætter mennesket i stand til at se ind i fremtiden.
Nordisk Museumsfestival i Stavanger – Forum for utstillingsproblematikk
Authors: Enerstvedt Åse
Published: August 2018

The Nordic Museums Festival - a forum for debate about exhibitionsIn spring 1993 Nordic museums were invited to participate in «Nordisk Museumsfestival» (The Nordic Museums Festival), a Swedish idea, created in cooperation between Gundula Adolfsson and Inga Lundstrom from Sweden, and AmS (Arkeologisk Museum in Stavanger).
Museologisk poesi
Authors: Palmær Carsten
Published: August 2018

1960- och 70-talens svenska protestgenerationer hade sin egen syn pa museihistorien och museernas samhällsroll. En brechtsk diktion anas i Carsten Palm:iers verser om British museum som tonsatta av Stefan Ringbom presenterades pa Scalateatern i Stockholm i november 1976 och finns utgiven pa LPn Knytkalas. Nya sånger med Fria Proteatem. (Oktober OSLP 516). De återges här med författarens benägna tillstånd.
Bevarandefrågor – en angelägenhet för oss alla!
Authors: Bergh Jan-Erik , Åkerlund Monika
Published: August 2018

Conservation - a concern far all of usThe laws of thermodynamics tell us that the entropy in a closed system increases, which means that systems go from order to disorder, thus explaining e. g. that a key manufactured from ore will turn into ore again if no energy is invested in maintaining it as a key. Objects can be degraded not only by chemical or physical processes, but also by biodeterioration. The later is processed by infestation from mould or bacteria or by insects, rodents etc.
Turning visitors into users. Strategies for the museum in the 21st century
Authors: Bradburne James M.
Published: August 2018

Our museums are in crisis - assailed on two sides by changes that threaten the very core of the institutions mission. On the one hand, museums, the repositories of the real are becoming victims of their own success. The enormous number of visitors drawn to large museums by 'blockbuster' exhibitions and aggressive marketing now makes it almost impossible for those visitors to experience the museum collection in any but the most trivial sense. On the other hand, many smaller museums are seeing visitor numbers drop drastically, as the museum visit is considered to be 'old-fashioned: and many new educational opportunities formerly provided by the museum visit are now available, at home, on the computer. It is the position of this paper that to survive into the next century, our museums must augment those experiences which can only be had in situ, while aggressively exploiting new approaches to informal learning.
Kring en vandringsutställning
Authors: Salén Gösta
Published: August 2018

A travelling exhibition reviewed The author describes his work with an Alvar Aalto-exhibition. The project starred on a visit to Helsinki in 1965 (cf. Nordisk Museologi 1997/1). He was given the opportunity to portray Aalto and his work in a travelling exhibition produced by Riksutställningar, Stockholm, in 1970.
Klassikern: Ett museimanifest år 1862
Authors: Ehrström Carl Robert
Published: August 2018

Museer eller efter en viss plan uppställda samlingar af sådana föremål, som ej mindre eget land än främmande länder hafva att erbjuda - märkvärdiga, nyttiga, nöjsamma, lärorika - hafva redan i de flesta civiliserade länder blifvit erkända såsom en vigtig häfstång för bildningens spridan- de bland bade hög och låg, ja hos många redan blifvit ett oafvisligt behof.
Materializing the past. Mannequins, history and memory in museums. Insight from the Northern European and East - Asian contexts
Authors: Varutti Marzia
Published: August 2018

What are the rationale, significance and implications of the use of reproductions of the human body in contemporary historical museums? This article probes this question through a critical analysis of diverse uses of body simulacra– specifically mannequins and life-size figures – in historical museums in Taiwan and China. The discussion of the East-Asian case study is set against examples from historical representations of the body in Northern Europe as a way to offer a comparative perspective that casts light on the uniqueness and similarities among these geo-cultural areas. This material enables me to reflect on the changing and diverse roles of mannequins in historical displays – in Western (North European) and non-Western contexts – ranging from materializations of the national past, its heroes and martyrs, aiming to canonize History as distant and authoritative, to display devices that strive to generate personal understandings of the past through memories and emotions.
Fluxus art amusement and the museum of gags. Objectification and bafflement, encounter and engagement at the museum
Authors: Van der Meijden Peter
Published: August 2018

When museums are mentioned in connection with art that as a critical strategy generates primary bodily experience, it is usually to claim that they are incompatible. However, both museums and artists have developed new strategies to deal with the changing times. This article seeks to re-evaluate the claim that museums will always treat works as objects by comparing Fluxus works and their staging by Fluxus organiser George Maciunas to examples of newer work that seeks a similar kind of interaction with the viewer. The solution they suggest is documentation of the way a primary audience interacted with the work in order to make it available to the (secondary) museum audience. Current models of museum viewing tend to be oriented towards experience or data retrieval. The alternative, it is argued, is a museum that draws attention to the historicity, specificity and authoredness of the viewing situation. A museum that no longer distinguishes between artwork and mise-en-scène, but wants to document both. A museum that bridges the gap between the professional roles it performs and uses all the physical and communicative spaces at its disposal to make available the type of communication that the artwork originally sought to establish to a contemporary audience.
Heritage digitization. Are there common practices and common reasons?
Authors: Wittgren Bengt
Published: August 2018

The article will examine the digitization of heritage and use of digital heritage within the civil society in Sweden. Three parties: Swedish local heritage communities, Swedish handicraft societies and the Sami community will be in focus. Are there intersections and gaps in linked, shared and networked cultural heritage between these parties and the public museums? Who have the preferential rights of interpretation? What are selected for digitization and why?
Danish history includes us. An example of collaborative partnership between citizens and museum
Authors: Appel Anneken , Sekwati Danielle Guldmann , Bertelsen Simone Søndergaard
Published: August 2018

In 2016, a contemporary exhibition was created in partnership with six local Somali women at the open-air museum Den Gamle By. The article reflects upon the women initiating the idea and being the primary resource in the development in the collaborative project, and examines examples from the project’s method in the analytical framework of experimental “prototyping”. The method in the project extends other examples of museum participation projects in relation to process, product and shifting roles as collaborators. The concept of prototyping shows how procedures at the museum were reconsidered and museum practitioners had to reevaluate their approach in sharing authority. A key experience was how an awareness of reactions enabled collaborators to address conflicting receptions a contemporary exhibition necessarily entails. Recognition of conflict became a driving force in creating space for dialogue and reflection. Possibly, prototyping is a way of understanding how museums set frameworks for dialogues between communities.
Born to be OPTI. A new model for participatory museum management
Authors: Queroi Lorena Sancho , Kallio Kalle , Heinonen Linda
Published: August 2018

Society in the Museum (SoMus) is a research project in the field of sociomuseology where culture is viewed as an essential axis of developmental processes and museums as key tools for the exercise of cultural citizenship. The project intends to identify, analyse, systematize and disclose some of the most interesting emerging models of participatory management underway in four European museums. In this article we present the anatomy, the strategy and the challenges of one of the Nordic partners, the Finnish Labour Museum, and its current management tool, the OPTI Participatory Management Model. The model has been adapted from the business world to serve as a critical museological tool and to enhance participation in cultural institutions. It is a response to the paradigmatic transition that museums face when actively engaging in a participative culture.
Museology and the Icelandic museum field. Collaborations and development
Authors: Whitehead Gudrun , Hafsteinsson Sigurjón Baldur
Published: August 2018

Since the birth of the Icelandic museum in the nineteenth century they have played a vital role in the local heritage sector. Starting as expressions of national pride during the independence movement from Denmark, the three central museums, the National Museum of Iceland, The National Gallery of Iceland and the Icelandic Museum of Natural History, have played a vital role in the professional work of museums. They promote collaboration and institutional development, most recently by enabling the establishment of Museology at the University of Iceland. Tracing the history of the museum field, this article seeks to demonstrate the vital role of museums within museology at the University of Iceland. With continued collaboration, museum professionals and the museum studies program can promote positive change in the Icelandic heritage sector.
Att spela innebandy på ett kristet vis. Sportkultur i KRIK Göteborg Student
Authors: Kardemark Wilhelm , Moberg Jessica
Published: August 2018

This article analyses a student group affiliated with the Christian sports network KRIK Sweden that gathers newly-moved-in students with a Christian revivalist background, in particular young men. Drawing on theories of identity as corporeal and gendered, we argue that while the loose network organization is new to this context, behavioral codes and sporting preferences are marked by a Christian revivalist heritage underlining inclusiveness and playfulness, giving room for a “soft” masculinity in a sporting context. We suggest that the latter, in combination with organizational novelties and older norms for interaction – are key to the group’s popularity among young men.Key words: youth; sport and Christianity; students; revivalist Christianity; Sweden. Artikeln undersöker och analyserar en studentavdelning tillhörande det kristna sportnätverket KRIK – en lokalgrupp som samlar nyinflyttade, till största del manliga, väckelsekristna studenter. I artikeln anläggs teoretiska perspektiv på identitet som kroppsligt förankrad och genuskodad. Vi menar att medan nätverksformen är ny i sammanhanget är beteendekoder och sportkulturen präglad av ett väckelsekristet arv där lekfullhet, omhändertagande och inkluderande utgör centrala drag. Inom gruppen finns också möjlighet att leva ut en väckelsekristen ”mjuk” maskulinitet vilket, i kombination med den lösa organisationsformen, bidrar till gruppens popularitet bland unga väckelsekristna män. Key words: ungdomar, kristendom och sport, studenter, väckelsekristendom, Sverige
Kirkelig undervisning – hva nå? Utfordringer med religionsmangfold og lav deltakelse
Authors: Birkedal Erling , Leganger-Krogstad Heid , Austnaberg Hans
Published: August 2018

Når dette skrives, er det snart 15 år siden trosopplæringsreformen ble vedtatt i Stortinget. Tiden er inne til å spørre om reformen har innfridd de mål og forventninger som var ved oppstarten, og hva som er veien videre. Vi vil i denne artikkelen reflektere over noen av utfordringene vi ser. For det første har vi i langt større grad fått et flerreligiøst/religionsmangfoldig samfunn. Barn og unge møter gjennom skolen, og særlig KRLE-undervisningen, religionsmangfoldet i direkte eller indirekte forstand. Kirken kan ikke forutsette at barna som kommer til trosopplæring, har et innenfrablikk på kristendom gjennom skolens undervisning eller hjemmefra. For det andre er omfanget av kristendomsundervisning for barn og unge blitt mindre, også for de som blir døpt. Trosopp-læringsreformen skulle gi opplæring til alle døpte. Tallenes tale er imidlertid tydelig: om lag en fjerdedel er med på trosopplæringstiltak før konfirmasjonstiden. Majoriteten av de døpte er ikke med i en systematisk opplæring fra småbarnsalderen. Trosopplæring skulle erstatte bortfall av rundt 300 timer kristendomsundervisning i skolen. Det har altså for de fleste ikke skjedd. På bakgrunn av utviklingen de siste ti-årene vil vi reflektere over konsekvensene av at barna lever i en flerreligiøs kontekst, og utfordringen med kirkelig undervisning for alle døpte. Vi spør hvordan kirken i enda større grad kan oppnå de gode mål og intensjoner som lå til grunn for trosopplæringsreformen.