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Nursing, midwifery and support workers training needs analysis in an integrated care organisation
Authors: Purran Ashutosh
Published: August 2018

Health Education North Central and East London (HENCEL) provide funding support every year to the Whittington Health NHS Integrated Care Organisation (ICO). This ensures that nurses and midwives who are in current employment receive consistent high quality education and training to support the delivery of excellent care in line with the NMC standards. This article describes an analysis of nursing, midwifery and support workers training needs for academic year 2016/17 to meet service improvement. The analysis provides the clinical education and practice development team with information of whether the organisation is in the right direction in achieving its clinical strategic objectives to deliver consistent high quality and safe services and be recognised as a leader in the fields of multi-professional education.
A Framework for the Development of a National Crypto-Currency
Authors: Abdullah Adam , Mohd Nor Rizal
Published: August 2018

This paper seeks to provide a conceptual framework as to whether a central bank or a monetary authority should issue a crypto-currency given available technology and what are the consequences of doing so. Under the fiat standard the value and purchasing power of money has experienced an exponential decay, whilst prices have increased exponentially. Typically, a central bank is responsible for monetary and financial stability, including settlement and payment mechanisms. A proposed methodology is provided that involves both quantitative and qualitative analysis to measure the comparative monetary performance, stress testing and impact assessment of a new crypto-currency that includes backing by gold, silver and a basket of commodities. The scope of the proposed framework involves a monetary economic analysis, supported by a technological investigation, under the framework of Shari’ah compliance, to explore an impact assessment of the adoption of a national crypto-currency. The significance of this study is that, it provides a framework for the development of a new national crypto-currency, which retains its’ store of value in terms of monetary performance and price stability, that would also investigate whether it’s implementation is viable.
A Spectral Analysis of Snow in Mt. Rainier
Authors: Ambinakudige Shrinidhi , Inamdar Pushkar , Lotfata Aynaz
Published: August 2018

Snow cover helps regulate the temperature of the Earth's surface. Snowmelt recharges groundwater, provides run-off for rivers and creeks, and acts as a major source of local water for many communities around the world. Since 2000, there has been a significant decrease in the snow-covered area in the Northern Hemisphere. Climate change is the major factor influencing the change in snow cover amount and distribution. We analyze spectral properties of the remote sensing sensors with respect to the study of snow and examine how data from some of the major remote sensing satellite sensors, such as (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) ASTER, Landsat-8, and Sentinel-2, can be used in studying snow. The study was conducted in Mt. Rainier. Although reflectance values recorded were lower due to the timing of the data collection and the aspect of the study site, data can still be used calculate normalized difference snow index (NDSI) to clearly demarcate the snow from other land cover classes. NDSI values in all three satellites ranged from 0.94 to 0.97 in the snow-covered area of the study site. Any pollutants in snow can have a major influence on spectral reflectance in the VIS spectrum because pollutants absorb more than snow.
The health behavior in relation to the oral cavity condition among cardiac patients
Authors: Pękała Gabriela , Taraszkiewicz-Sulik Katarzyna
Published: August 2018

Introduction. The appropriate oral hygiene and awareness of the importance of healthy dentition in patients with systemic diseases, especially cardiac diseases, are significant in their treatment therapy. The aim of the study. The assessment of health awareness and health behaviors in oral cavity diseases among cardiac patients. Materials and methods. The research was based on 72 cardiac patients, 33 women and 39 men, aged 58-88 years old. 47 post-myocardial infarction patients and 25 patients with other cardiac problems. To assess the health awareness the questionnaire survey was conducted. The results. Only 40,43% of the post-myocardial infarction patients were asked about their dentition by cardiologist. 30,56% of the group do not attend to the dental appointments regularly. 43,06% of the patients do not brush their teeth twice a day and 23,61% of the group noticed gum bleeding during tooth brushing, simultaneously only 44,44% of the patients know that it is a symptom of the disease. 33,33% of the group claims to have dental calculus, but only 12,5% of them remove it once a year, at the same time 41,66% of them is aware of negative effects of calculus on the heart. 30,53% of the patients have dental carious, 18,06% of the population claims to have loose teeth and 97,22% of the patients have their teeth removed, 52,87% of them because of pathologic teeth mobility. 6,64% of the patients admit to be active smokers, 51,39% have stopped smoking, and 41,67% have never smoked the cigarettes. Conclusion. The health knowledge and health seeking behavior among cardiac patients are insufficient. It is necessary to increase patients’ dental knowledge, aiming to increase the responsibility for their own health and to prevent systemic diseases including cardiac problems.
Re-entering the house. Scenographic and artistic interventions and interactions in the historic house museum
Authors: Mårdh Hedvig
Published: August 2018

Scenographic and artistic interventions and interactions have gained in signi cance within the elds of exhibition and museum design since the 1990s. is article speci cally focuses on historic house museums, and how they use their theatrical and scenographic assets in order to recharge and reinvent themselves. e author discusses the di erent aims and tasks these interventions and interactions take on, and the attitudes that make them happen. Further, the author argues that the eld of art history should address these changes in museological practice, and should investigate new possible readings of the historic house, the objects within, and artistic interventions. is would also show the relevance of art history to the eld of critical heritage studies in a period that is characterized by the heritage boom and the new experience industry.
Pels – liv og død. Nationalmuseet, København
Authors: Huseby Hege B. , Lund Elise M.
Published: August 2018

Det er vanskelig å ikke la seg forføre av pels, men materialet har sin pris. Nationalmuseet i København folder ut etiske dilemmaer om pelsproduksjon i en velfungerende og engasjerende særutstilling.
Bruno Ingemann: Present on Site. Transforming Exhibitions and Museums
Authors: Handberg Kristian
Published: August 2018

Museums are indeed fascinating and enchanting places, but they also represent “lost opportunities, a lack of inclusive communication and missing interactions”. This is the incentive for Ingemann’s book that declares the aim to “push the stable, hierarchic institutions into expanding the potential resources of exhibitions towards more provocative and meaningful communication”. It is thus presented as quite a debate book with an activist, or at least reformist, agenda towards the museum and exhibition world.
Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson. Phallological Museum
Authors: Heaton Knight Dorian Robert
Published: August 2018

Ever since first opening its doors to the public in 1997, the Icelandic Phallological Museum (Icelandic: Hið Íslenzka Reðasafn) has garnered deserved attention across the globe for its collection of phallic specimens belonging to every species of mammal in Iceland. Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson, associate professor of Museum Studies at the University of Iceland, has in this timely volume published by German company LIT Verlag, aimed to demystify the Phallological Museum by portraying the various social, historical and cultural contexts in which it is situated.
MuCEM – et nytt nasjonalmuseum i Frankrike anno 2013
Authors: Rogan Bjarne
Published: August 2018

In 2007 the French national museum of popular culture (MNATP) closed its doors in Paris, to reopen in Marseilles in 2013 – as MuCEM. MuCEM’s new profile is art and cultural history, and its territorial scope is the Mediterranean area. The article traces briefly the history of MNATP, through its heyday in the 1960s–70s to its downward path in the 1980s–90s. The main focus, however, is on the last ten years, which were marked by political events and external pressure more than by scholarly (ethnological) considerations. Geopolitical issues such as President Sarkozy’s Union pour la Méditerranée and UNESCO’s appointment of Marseilles as Europe’s cultural capital for 2013 were decisive events. Finally, the text discusses what this new museum has in common with other recently established French museums, especially the Branly museum, and to what extent this rather chancy process deviated from that of other museums.
Gákti ja goahti. Heritage work and identity at Várdobáiki Museum
Authors: Finbog Liisa-Rávná
Published: August 2018

The legacy of the harsh assimilation policy in Norway – fornorskingen – has resulted in a loss of language, cultural heritage and corresponding identities for many within the Sámi population. Helped along in particular by the practice of late nineteenth and twentieth-century ethnographic and cultural-history museums, the culture of Norway has often been presented as a singular culture with few, if any, references to the Sámi. Only in the last few decades have any attempts been made to rectify this image. In this article, I show how the Sámi communities have appropriated the tools of assimilation – i.e. museums – and used them to counteract its effects. I focus on the work of indigenous museums in one geographical area – the counties of Nordland and Troms – and the Marke- Sámi population and culture within this area. Using the Marke-Sámi community as my starting point I show how the use of local and traditional knowledge alongside heritage work in museums helps form a sense of local ownership of the Marke-Sámi culture and an entitlement to participate in the creation of modern Marke-Sámi identities amongst the local Marke-Sámi population.
Collecting Sápmi. Early modern collecting of Sámi material culture
Authors: Nordin Jonas M. , Ojala Carl-Gösta
Published: August 2018

This paper presents the research project Collecting Sápmi. Early modern globalization of Sámi material culture and Sámi cultural heritage today, financed by the Swedish Research Council 2014–18. The aim of the project is to examine early modern collecting of Sámi material culture and early descriptions of Sámi culture, primarily in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. We aim to study early modern networks of scholars and collectors interested in Sámi material culture, to investigate how and why the collecting was conducted, and to follow the movement of Sámi objects between collections and collectors around Europe. Furthermore, the project aims to discuss the importance of early modern collecting and the collected objects in today’s society. Here, critical issues are raised concerning colonial histories and relations in Sápmi, motivations and ideologies of collecting over time, as well as the rights to Sámi cultural heritage and its management today and in the future.
Het historia, svala museer
Authors: Hauptman Kathrine , Svanberg Fredrik
Published: August 2018

There is an ongoing tension between the modern museum concept, rooted in deep traditions within modernity, and the developments within the humanities over the last 30 years. The later movement, and not the least within museology, normally strives towards a more socially engaging museum, working with contemporary social and cultural issues. The article describes and discusses a number of research and development projects dealing with involvement, public archaeology, gender, diversity and the uses of history that have been undertaken by the authors at the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm during the last six years. Some points covered in the article are that dividing lines, or opposing positions, are often not between institutions but between different kinds of activities within institutions, and that institutions eager to work with a broader scope and to engage socially will also have to deal with more debates and criticism as well as the potential for threats against staff. Museums have the power to re-imagine and to have an effect on public culture, but that is a process not without complexity.
Forord
Authors: Brenna Brita , Silvén Eva , Larsen Ane Hejlskov
Published: August 2018

I visse af de nordiske lande ændrer museumslandskabet sig markant i disse år. Museologer nævner ofte finanskrisen i Vest- europa som en af hovedårsagerne. I Norden har en centraliseringstankegang blandt politikere siden midten af 1990’erne imidlertid bidraget til, at der er blevet langt færre museer, især i Norge og Danmark. I 1992 var det fx 141 danske museer, i 2013 er der 100 tilbage. I Norge har fusionsbølgen været endnu mere voldsom. I perioden fra 2001 til 2008 blev antallet af norske statsstøttede museer formindsket fra 300 til 85. Fusioner af museer og sammenlægninger af museer med samme eller forskellige fagligheder betragtes af lokale politikere og statens embedsfolk i Norden som løsningen på de mange udfordringer, som museerne af alle typer står overfor: krav om mere forskning, om mere formidling til nye publikumstyper og brug af ny teknologi samt om mere egenindtjening i form af publikumsentré og sponsering – med andre ord: økonomisk og faglig bæredygtighed, som er tidens politiske modeord.
Sponseringens indflydelse på danske museers selvforståelse og økonomi: et casestudie
Authors: Larsen Ane Hejlskov , Nørskov Vinnie
Published: August 2018

Ever since the 1980s there has been pressure from within Danish public-sector cultural policy to increase cooperation between cultural institutions and businesses. At the same time, a fundamental scepticism is embedded within such institutions and their research efforts with regard to the potential impact of such collaboration on the academic work carried out by these institutions. This article discusses the influence of sponsorship on two Danish museums’ self-perceptions and finances. The article is rooted in the Danish interdisciplinary research project entitled “The Strategic Museum”.
Museisamlingarnas sociomateriella dynamik
Authors: Reinius Lotten Gustafsson , Silvén Eva , Svanberg Fredrik
Published: August 2018

“The sociomaterial dynamics of museum collections” is an overarching research idea connecting three separate projects, with the aim of creating new knowledge about the roles of collections and collecting in the shaping of culture and society. The program includes three Swedish national museums that have been decisive in defining Sweden, Swedishness and the surrounding world – the Nordiska Museet (Swedish cultural history) the National Historical Museum (history, archaeology) and the Museum of Ethnography (the third/fourth world). In one study each, two ethnologists and one archaeologist will focus on objects and issues that have in some way been pointed out as problematic but which also seem to have a strong ability to define identity, social relations and create both conflict and reconciliation: collections from indigenous peoples, human remains and repatriation. The program includes three separate and ongoing projects, financed by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and The Swedish Research Council. The projects are connected by a shared interest in the dynamic interplay between material practices and social processes of change. This will be analyzed with an emphasis on turning points in collecting, classification, display and storage, such as the relocation of objects between and from the museums mentioned.
Portable technologies at the museum
Authors: Svabo Connie
Published: August 2018

A topic of interest in contemporary museum studies is how digital technologies contribute to museum visitor experiences. Building on insights from media and technology studies that new media should be understood for how they overlap with old media, the article reports an ethnographic study of the intersections between the exhibition at a modern museum of natural history and three portable technologies – one of which is digital. Mobile phone cameras, exercise pamphlets and dress-up costumes link visitors with an exhibition, but they simultaneously shape this relation in their own specific directions. This is shown by drawing on the concept of mediation as it is developed by philosopher Michel Serres and philosopher of technology Bruno Latour. The article is based on the Ph.D. thesis entitled “Portable Objects at the Museum”, defended at Roskilde University on 22 September 2010.
Bjørnar Olsen: In Defense of Things. Archaeology and the Ontology of Objects
Authors: Stien Hanne Hammer
Published: August 2018

En rekke titler har de siste årene satt ting og materialitet på den akademiske dagsorden. Felles for flere av disse bidragene er en kritikk av den språklige vendingen som har vært en dominerende inngang til kulturstudier, spesi- elt på 1980- og -90-tallet. Ved å fokusere på diskurs, tekst og tegn mener kritikerne at den materielle siden av kulturen har vært oversett på tross av at materiell kultur har vært et sen- tralt begrep i forskningen. (Damsholt, Simonsen og Mordhorst 2010:9-10; Dudley 2010:1- 2; Olsen 2010). Bjørnar Olsen er professor i arkeologi ved Universitetet i Tromsø. Hans siste bok, In Defense of Things, føyer seg inn i rekken av bøker som vektlegger at tingene eksisterer i relasjon til, og på lik linje med mennesker, planter og dyr. I motsetning til flere utgivelser som fokuserer på performativitet og gjøren av materialiteter konsentrerer Olsen seg om det han kaller integriteten til tingene. (Olsen 2010:172) Boken vil i denne sammenhengen vekke begeis- tring hos lesere med interesse for tingteori. Den kan samtidig fungere som en tekstbok for de som ønsker en innføring i fenomenologi og actor-network-theory. I artikkelen ”Momen- ter til et forsvar for tingene” (2004), publisert i Nordisk Museologi, argumenterte Olsen for at tingene ikke må ignoreres av vitenskapen. Hans resonnement underbygges og videreutvikles i In Defense of Things.
Museum og mangfold i norsk kontekst
Authors: Hauge Ingeborg , Akman Haci
Published: August 2018

The article focuses on an exhibition entitled ”A Pakistani flat in Norway” at the Norsk Folkemuseum museum of cultural history – an exhibition that is considered a front-runner in the portrayal of cultural diversity in a Norwegian context. The article discusses the visions provided by both international and national authorities for a museum in a culturally diverse society, and relates these visions to the actual exhibition praxis at Norsk Folkemuseum. The discourse about a museum of cultural diversity emphasises the importance of minority groups’ opportunities for participating in museum activities at different levels. Text analysis is used to consider the ways in which minorities take part in these processes. Detailed analysis of exhibition texts and texts associated with this particular exhibition on the Norsk Folkemuseum web site indicate an approach to cultural diversity that communicates cultural difference between strictly defined groups. This establishes text-based lines of demarcation for “being different”, and the reserves the right to define and interpret the material, and the dialogue principle at the heart of visions of cultural diversity finds only limited expression in actual practice. The museum has tried out new ways of collaborating with informant groups, and has contributed to extending the scope of current praxis for exhibition preparation, but these initiatives alone do not live up to authoritative and accepted visions for inclusive diversity.
Perry Johansson: Sinofilerna. Kinakunskap, samlande och politik från Sven Hedin till Jan Myrdal
Authors: Källén Anna
Published: August 2018

Perry Johanssons bok Sinofilerna publicerades redan 2008 och borde kanske ha passerat bäst-före-datum som föremål för en recension. Men så är det inte i det här fallet. Jag läste boken redan när den var ny och slogs då av hur ovanlig den var i sin genre i Sverige. Bara några enstaka försök hade då gjorts att använda den internationellt etablerade postkoloniala teorin som inspiration till svensk forskning om museer och ämneshistoria. Jag upplevde därför att bokens teoretiska anslag, även om jag själv tyckte att det var viktigt och inspirerande, hade svårt att få fäste i en större akademisk diskussion i den svenska museivärlden. På bara några år har dock läget förändrats. Så när jag nu läser den igen är det tydligt hur Sinofilerna slår an en ton som tycks bli allt mer aktuell, och den landar nu mjukt i dagsfärska diskussioner inom svensk museiforskning.
Camilla Mordhorst: Genstandsfortællinger. Fra Museum Wormianum til de moderne museer
Authors: Svanberg Fredrik
Published: August 2018

Camilla Mordhorsts Genstandsfortællinger. Fra Museum Wormianum til de moderne museer är en undersökning av föremålen i Ole Worms 1600-talsmuseum, hur Worm förhöll sig till dem samt vad som hände med dem i senare museikontexter och sällan har jag sett en tillbakablickande studie som sagt så myc- ket om föremåls villkor i museer med direkt relevans för samtidens förståelse och dagens institutioner.
Dem der ikke magter kunsten. Konflikter omkring kunstoplevelsen ved de første offentlige kunstudstillinger i Danmark
Authors: Hansen Peter Storm
Published: August 2018

The exhibitions held by The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in the latter half of the eighteenth century laid the basis for the subsequent practice of public art exhibitions in Denmark. The lack of a general background for this new activity, in the form of a broadly accepted framework of understanding, involved a sense of openness that proved attractive for people of very different kinds. This article shows how the artists of that time attempted to manage the public conditions and context for art by promoting one particular art experience, and limit others. This practice was especially aimed at excluding the lower classes, whose understanding of art was considered incompatible with that of the artists.
En oplevelse af oplysning: fornuft og følelse i erindringen om Dybbøl og 1864
Authors: Daugbjerg Mads
Published: August 2018

At the historical battlefield of Dybbøl in southern Denmark, the Danish defeat at the hands of the Prussian army in 1864 is commemorated. Focusing on visitors’ practice at two widely different institutions devoted to the telling of the Dybbøl story, the article analyses the relationship between rational enlightenment and sensuous experience in the interpretation of war heritage. Scott Lash’s idea of a ‘second modernity’ is utilised in criticising a conventional and narrow concep- tion of modernity characteristic of much museum theory, exemplified here by the work of Tony Bennett. Subscribing, in contrast, to an understanding of modernity which stresses visitors’ sensations and experiences, the article argues that people ap- propriating heritage draw upon reason as well as emotion: visitors demand an ‘ex- perience of enlightenment’.
Erindring og glemsel. Seminar i København 12. marts 2008
Authors: Marschner Line Suhr
Published: August 2018

The concepts of memory and oblivion and their historical changeability were in focus at a seminar that took place in Copenhagen in March 2008. Through seven different presentations of this theme, it was shown how the acts of remembering and forgetting are active in the formation of new norms and of new cultural identities in periods of cultural transition such as late Antiquity and in the Reformation period. The four keynote speakers were Paul Connerton, who spoke on three types of forgetting; James M. Bradburne, who dealt with memory in action in Italian late- Renaissance gardens; Charles Hedrick Jr., whose presentation was on transformations of the damnatio memoriae practice between late Antique and early Christian culture; and finally Andrew Spicer, who considered the process of erasing the Catholic past in post-Reformation Scotland.
Czech and Slovak museology, current status and the future of this branch of science
Authors: Dolák Jan
Published: August 2018

The first person to use the term “museology” in the Czech environment seems to have been Mr. Kliment Cermák, teacher and museologist, who for the first time formulated a need for special education to be provided for museum workers in his article Education in Museology from 1901 published under his editorship in the Bulletin of Czech & Slavonic Archaeological and Museum Association. His publication activities were continued by V. V. Jenícek in the magazine “Czech & Slavonic Museum Annals” between 1902 and 1910 and by Albín Stocký in the magazine “Museum Horizon” published between 1925 and 1928. In Slovakia, there were A. Kmet’ and F. Sasinek, and later P. Kri ko, M. Rybecký, A. Gregorová and M. Lalkovic, standing at the beginning and formation of museology. This generation, and for the most part also the following generation, were on a level comparable with the European elite but they published mainly in the Czech language, therefore they remained more or less hidden from the rest of the world. Museology undoubtedly has a long tradition in Central Europe and this paper aims to reflect the present status and key issues in the environment of the former Czechoslovakia.
Social media and cultural interactive experiences in museums
Authors: Russo Angelina , Watkins Jerry , Kelly Lynda , Chan Sebastian
Published: August 2018

Social media such as blogs, wikis and digital stories facilitate knowledge exchange through social networking. Such media create a new forum within which dispersed audiences - including youth, regional and rural communities - can engage with museums to actively debate notions of identity, and voice these reflections online. Social media can impact on formal and informal learning within the museum and the effect that this may have on notions of cultural identity. This represents a shift in the ways in which museums: act as trusted cultural online networks;distribute community knowledge; andview their role as custodians of cultural content.Museum communication systems such as exhibitions, public programs, outreach and education seek to provide complex cultural interactive experiences. Social media challenge existing communication models, and few museums have clear strategies for engaging communities in content creation. This paper will investigate some of the issues surrounding the use of social media in museum programs and will argue that there are strong epistemological reasons for using social media to add value to museum programs.
Skal kulturarven fra inuit tilbageføres? En relationel analyse af argumenter i dansk og international repatrieringspraksis
Authors: Gabriel Mille
Published: August 2018

I 1990 blev Therkel Mathiassens arkæologiske udgravninger i Repulse Bay, arktisk Canada udråbt som gravrøveri i den lokale avis News North, og året efter modtog Nationalmuseet en officiel ansøgning om repatriering af de udgravede skeletter. I 2001 fik Grønlands Nationalmuseum & Arkiv tilsendt en anmodning fra en canadisk besøgende om, at lade mumierne fra Qilakitsoq ”be given back to their culture for proper burial”. Samme år valgte befolkningen i Deering, Alaska at udsætte genbegravelsen af en samling 2000 år gammelt gravudstyr – efter at have fået vurderet samlingen til 500,000 $ på det internationale marked.
Arkiv for alle!
Authors: Knudsen Inger Bjørn
Published: August 2018

Seminar i Det Nordisk Arkivformidlingsnetværk på Københavns Rådhus d. 19.- 20. april 2007.In April 2007 a network of archivists from Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark met in Copenhagen to discuss the outreach of archives in terms of education and communication. The purpose of the seminar was to exchange experiences and to generate new and creative ideas. Such an exchange of experiences is important, because there are few people working in this field in the Nordic countries. This was an opportunity for sharing different initiatives.The participants were all convinced that it is desirable to get more people to use the archives. Hence one of the main subjects was how to get more people interested in the institutions. Four of the participants told about different new initiatives which they had tried out. These consisted of experiments with different types of art in the archives, virtual education and the use of a method called hot spot. The result of the seminar was two specific projects. The first was to put together an anthology, primarily because there is a great lack of material about the outreach of the archives. The second was a project about using art in the archives, in which several of the participants showed great interest. A lot of other inspiring ideas were shared and there is definitely a basis for more meetings in the network and more cooperation between the Nordic countries.
Recombining ideas from art and cultural history museums in theory and practice
Authors: Turpeinen Outi
Published: August 2018

This article is concerned with visual elements of exhibition design in cultural history museums and the way they produce meanings. The aim is to open up and analyze the process of constructing meanings from a visual point of view. Examples are chosen from the authors own artistic museum installations, which act as test spaces in the research. Cultural history museums can act as a treasure box for artistic work, and vice versa, contemporary art and design can give valuable tools for display habits in cultural history museums.
Graham Black: The Engaging Museum. Developing Museums for Visitor Involvement
Authors: Grøn Karen
Published: August 2018

I junglen af nye museologiske bøger stikker “The Engaging Museum”, skrevet af Graham Black, senior lecturer i Museum and Heritage Management på Nottingham Trent University, ud. Det er ganske enkelt en fremragende bog om museer og publikum, som det vil være relevant for folk på alle niveauer i museumsverdenen at læse. Graham Blacks egen baggrund er primært kulturhistorisk, men bogen vil have lige stor relevans for både naturhistoriske, kulturhistoriske, arkæologiske og kunsthistoriske museer. Ved siden af sit arbejde ved universitetet fungerer Graham Black som udstillingskonsulent og har vundet adskillige priser for sine udstillinger, heriblandt Gulbenkian Prize, som er en årlig museumspris i England på £100.000.
What theory? What heritage? Some excerpts from the current book project on heritology
Authors: Šola Tomislav
Published: August 2018

This lecture contains several sets of arguments about why we have to rethink our strategies and theoretical framework. I claim that only by knowing the world around us can we propose an answer that is useful for our users and for society in general. I also advocate rethinking the role of collective memory institutions, museums included, so that they form a powerful alliance of humanistic, cybernetic response to the challenges and threats we encounter. There is also a claim that we have a solid basis on which to reconceptualise our position via a wider theoretical approach that is also fitting for other kindred institutions. The terms “heritology” and “mnemosophy” are proposed as an intentional provocation that should lead to a usable, open redefinition. In the same way, the museum institution – or rather the heritage institution – should be re-defined and used differently so that it becomes part of the solution to the problems of contemporary society.
Fra Altes Museum til ARoS - tur/retur. En motivisk analyse af ARoS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum som museumsarkitektur
Authors: Pedersen Simon
Published: August 2018

ARoS, det nye kunstmuseum i Århus, er det hidtil seneste nordiske bud på et moderne og nutidigt kunstmuseum og fremstår som en modernisering og innovation af de hidtidige kunstmuseer. Men hvori består det "nye" i måden at tænke og bygge et kunst- museum? Til besvarelse af dette spørgsmål sætter artiklen ARoS i forhold til museumshistorien, for at man, i sammenstillingen med 1800-tallets kunstmuseum, kan få indblik i kunstmuseets udviklingshistorie og betydning som museumsarkitektur.
Hammarlund-Larsson, C., Nilsson, B. G., Silvén, E. Samhällsideal och framtidsbilder. Perspektiv på Nordiska museets dokumentasjon och forskning
Authors: Berkaak Odd Arne
Published: August 2018

Det heter i bokens innledning at man har hatt som formål "att undersöka hur Nordiska museet genom sin insamling, dokumentation och forskning har gestaltat samhällsideal och framtidsbilder." I dette forsett lykkes man på en overbevisende måte. Men man lykkes egentlig enda bedre med det motsatte, å vise hvordan ulike ideologier, mentaliteter og diskurser i svensk samfunnsliv har kjempet om makt og innflytelse og "gestaltet" NM på ulike måter i ulike epoker.I sin uhyre detaljrike og nyanserte fremstilling av stemmer og posisjoner i de ulike epokene, har boken paradoksalt nok også sin styrke i at den inspirerer til refleksjon over de store linjene i utviklingen av de kulturhistoriske museene. Det følgende er derfor både en bokomtale og en inspirert refleksjon.
Museene mellom konservering og konsum. Nye tider og nye utfordringer for museenes verdigrunnlag og målsetting
Authors: Sæter Gjertrud
Published: August 2018

Museums between preservation and consumption Today, museums are faced with challenges of vital importance in defining their goals and values. Through- out time, museums have been expressions of their contemporary society. The central theme of this article is changes in museums through the ages and today’s challenges. The perspective of the article is general, including museums for culture, nature, science and art. Early museums were exclusive institutions, tailored to a limited and often private audience. In the 18th and 19th centuries, museums have to a large extent became part of the modern project of enlightenment and the development of the nation state. In our post-modern age, museums to a large degree have become part of an entertainment and heritage industry; an industry defined by the demands of mar- ket economy. The article concludes that the conflict contemporary museums experience between the modern tradition of enlightenment and the post-modern trend towards entertainment might be solved by developing museums based on “constructed knowledge”. The new challenge for a museum today will be to include “the knower” as “an intimate part of the known”. This, along with the institution’s ability to engage an audience and stimulate personal engagement, will be a demanding task for any museum.
Julian Spalding: The Poetic Museum. Reviving Historic Collections
Authors: Persson Eva
Published: August 2018

Varför skrivs det så lite om sakutställningens teori och praktik ur ett gestaltningsperspektiv? De historiska och kulturhistoriska museerna får aldrig den slags utställningskritik som varje konstmuseum tar för självklar, en kritik där form och innehåll ses som en helhet och där utställningens framträdande i rummet och objektens fysiska påverkan på besökaren är utgångspunkt för resonemang och reflektion. Jag är sannerligen inte den första att ställa denna fråga, allra minst i Nordisk museologi som uppmärksammat bristen på estetiskt orienterad kritik av sakmuseernas utställningar men som också försökt avhjälpa den med artiklar om forskare och arkitekter som – från olika utgångspunkter givetvis – balanserat föremålets yta mot deras innehåll så att det sinnliga inte skymmer berättandet och tvärtom. Snarare förutsätter de varann – det omedelbart sinnliga och det narrativa.
Museipestens nya skepnad?
Authors: Ekström Anders
Published: August 2018

När man for omkring hundra år sedan allt oftare talade om en speciell «museivetenskap» i Sverige och andra europeiska länder, var det ett tecken pa att museet som institution hade tilldelats en central samhällelig betydelse. Det indikerade om inte annat sjalva anvandningen av ordet vetenskap. En doldis i svenskt sekelskifte, Eugene Fahlstedt, kanske mest omskriven för att han stod ut med en livslang vanskap med August Strindberg, förklarade i en oversiktsartikel i Nordisk familjebok att ordet «museivetenskap» avsåg kunskap om «allt» som hörde till ett museums uppgifter, men i forsta hand kunskapen om "förvärfvande af föremål deras konserverande, förvarande och katalogisering". Den praktiska utövningen av den kunskapen kallade Fahlstedt i sin tur «museiteknik», det vill saga en liknande distinktion som senare skulle goras mellan termerna museologi och museografi.
Museologi som vetenskapligt fält
Authors: Lundberg Bengt
Published: August 2018

Museology and its field of research During an excursion to Swedish historical sites with friends from France the author observes how his companions had to transform their impressions into a verbal discourse with the aid of a printed guide before they were satisfied. Just taking a good look at the monument or contenting themselves with what they were told by their Swedish friend was not enough. In doing this the French guests confirmed in a striking way Foucault's statement that we are inscribed in the order of one of the discourses at our disposal and that we are subordinated the cultural heritage, the memories and experiences we carry along like an invisible museum. The Swedish scenery, monuments and objects did not communicate a meaning until they had been verbally translated into French.
1. Jorden, Vandet og Husene. Elementer af et liv på museum; 2. Kulturarvets natur; 3. Kulturarvet, museerna och forskningen
Authors: Ågren Per-Uno
Published: August 2018

Peter Michelsen: Jorden, Vandet og Husene. Elementer af et liv på museumAnnika Alzen - Johan Hedrfo (red.): Kulturarvets natur.Annika Alzen - Magdalena Hillstrom (red.): Kulturarvet, museerna och forskningen. Rapport från en konferens 13-14 november 1997
Et menneske i Oldtiden
Authors: Ingemann Bruno
Published: August 2018

Kan man finde mennesker på Nationalmuseets udstilling om Oldtiden? Der er selvfølgelig de besøgende. Men hvad med sporene af oldtidens mennesker og de relationer de kan have haft til hinanden?
Med Gutenberg på internettet
Authors: Nielsen Arno Victor
Published: August 2018

With Gutenberg on Internet The paper comments on the development of verbal communication from oralicy, through written and princed text up to the age of the computer. The importance of Marshall McLuhan is underlined for his insistence on the potential new freedom from the rigid linearicy of the text which modern media have offered.
Livshistorie – livforløbets historie – reflektioner over livet som udstillingstema
Authors: Otto Lene , Pedersen Lykke L.
Published: August 2018

The narrative exhibition There is an essential distinction in cultural-historic museums concerning the orientation of exhibitions toward objects or toward concepts. The former emanare from things, a good collection, put on display for the public. The latter proceed from an idea or a story that is told to the public. This article deals with the narrative conceptual orientation, illustated by the exhibition «Livshistorie» [Lifestory/ Lifehistory) presented by the National Museum of Denmark.
Tillträde förbjudet
Authors: Ågren Per-Uno
Published: August 2018

Produktionen av vär nordiska tidskrift forutsätter numera fungerande moderniteter som e-mail och telefax för samarbetet inom redaktörsgruppen. En lördagskväll i slutfasen av arbetet med föreliggande nummer, då en svit texter skulle sändas till Norge, skimrar mot uppkopplaren i Umeå den avvisande texten ACCESS DENIED på skärmen - inte den vanligare vänligare LINE BUSY som ber kunden vänta pa en ledig linje.
Ekomuseum Bergslagen – från idé till verklighet
Authors: Hamrin Örjan
Published: August 2018

The Bergslagen ecomuseum – from idea to reality The paper states that Ekomuseum Bergslagen is not a proper ecomuseum in the original French sense of the word. Initially the project was influenced by the French concept and adopted the term - but in many respects it has grown logically out of a set of existing structures and ways of coping with cultural changes. The author points to the initiatives taken in the 1920s by the author, local heritage enthusiast and popular educator Karl-Erik Forsslund (1872- 1941), who lived in the region and created the famous folk high school at Brunnsvik and later, in 1938, founded at Ludvika, the first open-air museum of industrial history in the world.
Industrisamfunn og kulturarv
Authors: Bårtvedt Randi
Published: August 2018

An industrial community and its heritage This paper was given at the Seminar on Museums and Museology in Norway and Scandinavia, ICOFOM Stavanger July 2, 1995. It deals with the process of building an industrial and social museum from scratch in a small community. The author is a curator and director of the museum today and has been involved in the museum work from the beginning in 1985.
Order and culture. Passages of popularization
Authors: Von Plessen Marie-Louise
Published: August 2018

I will try to draw a portrait of the political genesis of the museum as a popular institution for national thought and education by examining Europe's first National Museums: the British Museum, the Louvre, the Versailles Museum of the History of France and those museums characterized by an early expression of nationalist feeling before the political institution of the nation state emerged. Their influence grew from enlightened philosophy and they became, in spite of their aspiration of objectivity, major teachers of minor and later pupils.
Museums, paintings and history
Authors: Pomian Krzysztof
Published: August 2018

Todays museum is permeated with history. So much so that the general public and probably the majority of both museum curators and historians seem to consider the connection between museum and history an obvious and a necessary one. Yet, if we look at the past of the museum and at that of history, we discover that during the early centuries of the museums existence they had nothing in common with one another. How did the conjunction of museum with history come into being? How did the museum adapt itself to different types of history: to universal history, to national history, to local history? How did history become aware of the importance of museums for the study ofthe past? And how did the museum become aware of its own history? These are the questions included under the headline Museum and History. I cannot discuss them all. I shall concentrate on only one of them and even this one will not be treated exhaustively.
Allt som är fast förflyktigas
Authors: Ågren Per-Uno
Published: August 2018

Frasen som Marshall Berman lyfte fram ur Marx-Engels kommunistiska manifest används ofta numera när tidens föränderlighet, snabba förbrukning av materiella och immateriella bekvämligheter begrundas. Den ligger nära till hands när Chris Dercon - i numrets uppsats om det moderna konstmuseet - i förbigående nämner svårigheten att 1996 rekonstruera Four Rotating Walls, en installation som 1970 förvärvats till Boijmans Van Beuningen-museet i Rotterdam och som byggde på filmprojektioner.
The ecomuseum in theory and practice. The first Chinese ecomuseum established
Authors: Laishun An , Gjestrum John Aage
Published: August 2018

The first Chinese ecomuseum was opened on October 31st 1998. This was a result of four years of co-operation between Chinese and Norwegian museum professionals, state authorities on various levels and the people of a local ethnic minority in Guizhou province. At the signing of the official project agreement in 1997 the Chinese head of state Jiang Zemin and the Norwegian King Harald and Queen Sonja, were present. It is very rare for a museum project to attract such high level attention. It is quite a distance from the palaces of Beijing where this event took place to the Soga community and the Qing Miao minority group, with a population of 4,000 living under the poorest conditions in a high mountain area in Guizhou province.
Kulturarv – hvad taler vi om?
Authors: Witt Torben
Published: August 2018

Cultural heritage - what are we talking about? The 1984 Danish Museum Act stated that the objective of the law should be to safeguard the cultural heritage of Denmark. The paper comments critically on this concept.
Are museums putting heritage under the domination of the tourism industry?
Authors: Boniface Priscilla
Published: August 2018

The complex relationship between museums, heritage and tourism is discussed. Consideration is given to whether museums' heritage and old style method of operation can reasonably continue, and how heritage is and can be treated by museums. It is regarded as essential for museums to show contemporary relevance. They need to be used and valued by the range of society and should show that they are focused upon all types of visitor. Tourists are suggested to be, essentially, visitors, and not therefore a sector apart causing fear and trepidation.
Public and Private: the main categories of art collections in Finland
Authors: Pettersson Susanna
Published: August 2018

The following article addresses a paradox that lies at the heart of every public art collection. The public nature of the institution leads one to assume that collections are compiled on what might be called «public principles.» Thus the selection process is supposed to be «objective», while also being guided by «good taste.»
Encountering the vitrine. Distance and proximity effects in museum vitrines.
Authors: Pilgaard Ane
Published: August 2018

This article analyses spatial dynamics in museum vitrine design through the lens of art theorist Rosalind E. Krauss’ grid concept. Due to the regularity of shelves, compartments and lattice framework, vitrines are characterized by a grid structure which, following Krauss’ conceptualization, has a double function: it frames a space within, and at the same time, extends outwards beyond its own framework. While museum literature often tells us that vitrines have a distancing effect, this article argues that because of their dual ability to frame and create focus, together with their grids’ extension into the space in which the museum visitor moves, vitrines can also generate a sense of bodily proximity. This argument draws on Walter Benjamin’s distinction between optical, distanced focus and haptic, proximate distraction. However, rather than maintaining an opposition between distance and proximity, the article emphasizes the oscillation between simultaneous distance and proximity effects in museum vitrine design.
Hip heritage and contemporary tastes. Packaging the Nordic in the American cultural market
Authors: Gradén Lizette , O’Dell Tom
Published: August 2018

This article focuses on two institutions, the American Swedish Institute and the Nordic Heritage Museum that have spent the first part of the twenty-first century thinking and rethinking what the heritage under their auspices can be. In doing this, the text problematizes the manner in which elements of Nordic history and identity are being re-thought and re-framed in the cultural and economic context of the American heritage market. The article asks, how is heritage affected when it is increasingly framed as a marketable commodity? As part of the analysis the article discusses the manner in which these museums are intensively and consciously striving to be cool and chic, but even trend and fashion sensitive as they position themselves in the growing and competitive market of what we call hip heritage.