Národopisná vesnice z roku 1895. Ztracené dědictví prvního středoevropského muzea v přírodě

• Authors: Vít Smrčka , Aleš Smrčka

Title variants

EN

An ethnographic village from 1895. Lost heritage of the first Central-European open-air museum

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

In the text, the authors demonstrate that a Czech open-air museum was founded in Prague in 1895, well ahead other European countries. It was the first open-air museum in the then Europe south of Scandinavia. It was far ahead of its time also through the connection with a large collection museum. The original exhibition village changed into a permanent open-air museum. The Czech "skansen", likewise the Swedish one, meant an inspiration for further exhibition and museum projects. From the very beginning of the existence of an ethnographic village at the Czechoslavic Ethnographic Exhibition, it was planned to maintain it. For subsequent six years, the village was used for ethnographic and cultural purposes, just as current open-air museums are. Its spaces were not closed and non-functional. For this reason, we could consider the ethnographic village to be “wooden heritage”, which does no longer exist now. Despite its uniqueness, and scholar, social and cultural benefits, the ethnographic village from the year 1895 has not survived. Its extinction in the year 1901 was caused by a wood-decay fungus. The authors believe there is still a possibility of renewing this ethnographic village

Keywords

EN

open-air museum; cultural heritage; Czechoslavic ethnographic exhibition; folk house; Czech and Slovak ethnology

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Czech Ethnological Society
• Journal: Národopisný věstník
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 37_(79)
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 87-112
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Vít Smrčka

• Česká národopisná společnost, z. s., Národní třída 3, 117 20 Praha 1, Czech Republic

author

Aleš Smrčka

• Česká národopisná společnost, z. s., Národní třída 3, 117 20 Praha 1, Czech Republic