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Język muzeum, czyli o nowych sposobach odczytywania wystaw

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Niklewicz B.

Polonistyka. Innowacje

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2015

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issue 2

165-174

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Linguistic theory which Mieke Bal presented in her text The Talking Museum, reproduced in the book Double Exposures: The Subject of Cultural Analysis, is one of the clearest signs of the New Museology. This self- critical field indicates changes in museum studies at the end of the twentieth century.

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Artykuł stanowi refleksję na temat współczesnego muzeum. Ukazuje przestrzeń wystawienniczą, z jednej strony jako przestrzeń narracji – miejsce dialogu obiektów, kuratorów i widzów, z drugiej jako narrację przestrzeni – legitymizującą dzieła i formującą ich przekaz. Najistotniejszy kontekst stanowią badania sytuujące się w obszarze nowej muzeologii, wskazujące na możliwość wprowadzenia do języka muzeum elementów interdyscyplinarnych, również z zakresu literaturoznawstwa.

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THE MUSEUM SHOP IN POLAND. UNUSED SPACE OF INTERACTION AND A CHALLENGE FOR THE INSTITUTION’S MANAGERS

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Łongiewska-Wijas E.

Muzealnictwo

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2018

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vol. 59

9-18

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The article is a fragment of the author’s more extensive study The museum shop. Its role and significance in modern museum, written as a student of the Postgraduate Museum Studies at the University of Warsaw. Based on interviews and both questionnaire and visual surveys, it presents issues pertaining to the location of museum shops within the museum’s premises, correlation between the shop’s assortment on offer and the museum’s programme, as well as the awareness of museum executive managers as to the versatility of such shops’ potential. In many cases the museum shops are being neglected which shows in their underinvestment, lack of care, unattractive offer and unfriendly spatial arrangement. It is hard to understand such approach especially that shops are in most cases the final accent of a visit to the museum. The author underlined the significance of projects intending to modernise the spatial arrangement of museum shops. They envisage the transformation of a shop into a space for the pleasant pastime, relaxation to release a museum fatigue; an opportunity to see and purchase publications giving a deeper insight into just visited expositions. In conclusion, the author points to the abundance of interdisciplinary research which may and should include the subject of museum shop. She draws attention to issues concerning, inter alia: selection and competence of shop personnel, placement within an organisational structure, cooperation with lessees, stock replenishment and budgeting of the shop. Furthermore, the scope of the conducted research included the adaptation of both historic and modern interiors for museum shop purposes, furnishings (interior design, furniture, lighting), presence of exclusive items appreciated by connoisseurs, marketing, promotion, as well as the use of new media in the image- -building of the shop.

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JEWISH MUSEUMS IN EUROPE: GENESIS AND PROFILE

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Sztyma T.

Muzealnictwo

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2019

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vol. 60

55-63

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In the last decades of the 20th c. and following 2000, a real 'boom' in founding Jewish museums throughout Europe could be observed. A lot of new institutions were established, and old ones were modernized. All this resulting from the growing urge to overcome silence over the Holocaust, to square up with the past, and to open the debate on the multiethnicity of the history of Europe. This, in turn, was favoured by the occurring phenomena: Europe’s integration, the fall of the Iron Curtain, and the development of democratic civil societies. New Jewish museums established in Europe, though inevitably making a reference to the Shoah, are not Holocaust museums as such, and they do not tell the story of the genocide. Their goal is mainly to restore the memory of the centuries of the Jewish presence in a given country, region, and town: they tell this story as part of the history of the given place, and aim at having it incorporated into the official national history. Moreover, their mission is to show the presence and importance of the Jewish heritage in today’s world, as well as to ask questions related to Jewish identity in contemporary Europe. The civilizational conflicts that arose after the relatively peaceful 1990s, outlined a new framework for the activity of Jewish museums which, interestingly, gradually go beyond the peculiar Jewish experience in order to reach a universal level. With such activities they try to promote pluralism and multicultural experience, shape inclusive attitudes, give voice to minorities, speak out against all the manifestations of discrimination and exclusion. Since these museums deal with such sensitive challenging issues, they have to well master the structure of their message on every level: that of architecture, script, exhibition layout, and accompanying programmes, thanks to which they unquestionably contribute to creating new standards and marking out new trends in today’s museology as well as in museum learning.

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DEPARTMENT OF MUSEUMS AND MONUMENTS OF POLISH MARTYROLOGY IN 1945–54 AND TO-DATE CONTINUATION OF ITS TASKS

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Kułak P.

Muzealnictwo

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2019

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vol. 60

78-91

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The operations of the Department of Museums and Monuments of Polish Martyrology were launched in April 1945 as an organizational unit within the Head Authorities of Museums and Monument Preservation active within the structure of the Ministry of Culture and Art. The Department’s supreme goal was to document and visually commemorate sites connected with the martyrdom of Poles under the German occupation in 1939–45 by founding museums and raising monuments on execution sites throughout the whole country. The establishment of such an institution was a response of the government to the spontaneous social movement whose goal following the tragic war experience was to commemorate all the fallen in armed struggle and the executed in the Nazi death camps. The social initiatives inspired the authorities to coordinate such efforts, to identify the priorities in this respect, and to select various commemoration forms. These tasks, along with many other ones, were to be implemented by the Department of Museums and Monuments of Polish Martyrology. The paper deals with the characteristics of the Department’s activities, its organizational structure, as well as the detailed aims and tasks implemented over the 9 years of its operations: from the establishment in 1945 to its winding up in 1954. All the Department’s activities meant to commemorate martyrology sites can be divided into those related to the organization and establishment of museums on the sites of former camps, prisons, and Gestapo investigating offices (e.g. museums in Auschwitz, Majdanek, at Warsaw’s 25 Szucha Avenue), and those related to raising monuments to the Nazi regime’s victims. Furthermore, forms meant to continue the efforts initiated by the Department since 1954 are described. The paper is to a great degree based on the documentation preserved in the Central Archives of Modern Records, yet constitutes but an introductory outline as well as encouragement to further investigate the Department’s history.

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MUSEUM DIVERSITY THROUGH THE LENS OF THE KYOTO DEFINITION

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Mairesse F.

Muzealnictwo

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2020

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vol. 61

75-79

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The author analyses the logic underlying the ICOM museum definition process and the sense of continuity among the different definitions, since its creation in 1946. The new definition proposed in Kyoto in 2019 (during the ICOM General Conference, 1–7 September) created a risk of breaking within this continuity and the museum community. The definition process is here put in parallel with the notion of mission statement, associated with strategic management, and the value system linked to a resolutely activist vision of the museum, integrating such topics as gender, postcolonialism, sustainable development or human rights.

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MUSEUM IN THE PROCESS. SELECTED TENDENCIES IN 20TH-CENTURY MUSEOLOGY

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Tołysz A.

Muzealnictwo

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2020

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vol. 61

96-105

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The debate on the museum definition undertaken at the 2019 Kyoto ICOM General Conference points to the role played contemporarily by museums and the expectations they have to meet. It also results as a consequence of changes happening in museums beginning as of the 19th century until today. Extremely important processes took place in the past century. Initially, the changes covered the museum operating methods, mainly within museum education and display, however, they also had an impact on the status of objects in museum collections in the context of artistic and ethnographic collections. One of the most interesting ideas for museum’s redefinition was that proposed in the 1st half of the 20th c. in the formula of Museums of Artistic Culture. However, the departure from the traditionally conceived museum towards a ‘laboratory of modernity’ proposed by the Russian Avant-garde was still too revolutionary for its times. Beginning as of the 1960s, next to the reflection on museums’ operating modes, there increased the emphasis on the role they played and the one they should play in modern society. It was phenomena of political, social or economic character that had a direct impact on the transformation of the shape of museums, these phenomena appearing under the banners of globalization, liberalization, democratization, glocalization. Criticism of museums and their up-to-then praxes drew attention to the essential character of the relation between the institution and its public. The turn towards society allowed for such formats to appear as an ecomuseum, participatory museum, open museum. The solutions derived from the New Museology not only point to the necessity to move the level of the relationship between museum and society, but first and foremost to reflect on museum’s activity which is assumed to create an institution maximally transparent and ethical. It is for various reasons that not all the solutions proposed by museums meet the criteria. Museums continue to face numerous challenges, yet they boast potential to face them.

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Mnemosyne in Museum and at School

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Rusek M.

Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska, sectio N – Educatio Nova

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2020

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issue 5

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The article is dedicated to the issue of cultural memory in Polish studies. It is discussed in the context of the so-called memory turn, and the transformations occurring in the museum science under the influence of the “new museology”. The text consists of three parts. The first one concerns the changes and shifts in the discourse of cultural and social memory in the days of the increasing musealization process. The second one indicates new educational strategies in narrative, critical, and especially in participatory museums, which contributes to the formation of new models of participation in culture and of receptive habits. The third part, on the other hand, provides diagnoses concerning challenges, as well as the hints which the transformations of the museum activities in the field of education offer to Polish studies.

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Artykuł poświęcony jest zagadnieniu pamięci kulturowej w edukacji polonistycznej. Kwestia ta została omówiona kontekście tzw. zwrotu pamięciowego oraz przekształceń zachodzących w muzealnictwie pod wpływem „nowej muzeologii”. Tekst składa się z trzech części. Pierwsza z nich dotyczy zmian i przesunięć w dyskursie o pamięci kulturowej i społecznej w czasach narastającego procesu muzealizacji. W drugiej wskazane zostały nowe strategie edukacyjne w muzeach narracyjnych, krytycznych, a zwłaszcza w muzeum partycypacyjnym, co przyczynia się do formowania nowych wzorów uczestnictwa w kulturze i przyzwyczajeń odbiorczych. Z kolei trzecia część przynosi rozpoznania dotyczące wyzwań, ale i podpowiedzi, jakie dla kształcenia polonistycznego płyną z transformacji zachodzących w działalności muzeów na polu edukacyjnym.

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Between an object and a tale: Strategies of local narratives construction in semi-peripheral museums

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Porczyński D., Vargova L.

Opuscula Musealia

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2019

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vol. 26

173-182

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The primary aim of this article is to single out and interpret the processes of constructing images of locality in regional museums in the Podkarpackie Province and in the Košice Region, as well as to indicate phenomena which affect these processes. We are interested primarily in discussing individual components of legacy (local, national, material, immaterial, etc.) and using them to build a sense of identity in museum visitors. Relying on the principles of the new museology: “protect –examine –inform”, we focus on the last of these spheres, which refers directly to the practice of creating meanings that engage both museologists and the public. When we single out the field of research, we position the subject of our inquiry in the context of the theory of globalisation, which means that we regard the specified areas as peripheral within semi-peripheral countries. This specification of the field is supposed to help us determine whether local museums in Central Europe still function within the framework of the traditional (modernist) paradigm or whether they have fully or partially implemented the principles of the “new museology”. In the course of the analysis, we show that the process of constructing locality is a matter of control over legacy and its interpretations. However, it is not an action which depends solely on a museologist, who has to deal with time pressure and the availability and completeness of a collection when creating his or her narrative. It means that in reference to educational museum activities, we should rather talk about multiple images of locality, the construction of which is affected by various factors. The material was gathered from in-depth interviews conducted in selected Polish and Slovak museums, thanks to which this article reflects primarily the museologists’perspective on the problems in question.

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Dziedzictwo kulturowe w turystyce wiejskiej z perspektywy nowego muzealnictwa

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Idziak W.

Zagadnienia Doradztwa Rolniczego

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2019

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issue 4 (98)

57-67

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Dziedzictwo kulturowe jest ważnym czynnikiem rozwoju wsi. Jego znaczenie rośnie wobec stopniowego ograniczania rolnictwa, jako podstawy gospodarki i życia społecznego wsi. Może ono być ważnym zasobem gospodarczym wobec upowszechniania się ekonomii kultury i związanej z nią turystyki kulturowej. Społeczne i gospodarcze wykorzystanie dziedzictwa kulturowego wsi napotyka jednak na liczne problemy, takie jak nierówny dostęp do zasobów kultury, różna ich jakość, kłopoty z dziedziczeniem (dziedzictwo niechciane, trudne, nieuświadamiane), niedostatek innych czynników rozwojowych: wiedzy i umiejętności, finansów, infrastruktury. Celem opracowania jest pokazanie możliwości wykorzystania dziedzictwa kulturowego do tworzenia produktów wiejskiej turystyki kulturowej w takich właśnie sytuacjach problemowych. Przyjęto tezę, że pomocne będzie tu odwołanie się do postulatów nowego muzealnictwa. Teza ta weryfikowana była w trakcie kreowania produktów turystycznych w ramach programu tworzenia wiosek tematycznych. Zastosowano przy tym metodologię współuczestniczących badań w działaniu lokującą się w szerszej perspektywie antropologii stosowanej.

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Cultural heritage is an important factor in rural development. Its importance is growing due to the gradual reduction of agriculture as the basis of the economy and social life of the village. It can be an important economic resource in the face of the spread of cultural economics and related cultural tourism. The social and economic use of the cultural heritage of the village, however, faces numerous problems, such as unequal access to cultural resources, their different quality, problems with inheritance (unwanted, difficult, unconscious heritage), and a lack of other developmental factors: knowledge and skills, finances, infrastructure. The aim of the study is to show the possibilities of using cultural heritage to create rural cultural tourism products in such problem situations. The thesis was accepted that it would be helpful here to refer to the postulates of the new museology. This thesis was verified while creating tourist products as part of the thematic village creation program. The methodology of the Participatory Action Research was used, which is located in the broader perspective of applied anthropology.

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Bringing Habermas to Memory Studies

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Łuczewski M., Bednarz-Łuczewska p., Maślanka T.

Polish Sociological Review

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2013

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vol. 183

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issue 3

335-350

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In this paper, we attempt to show the fruitfulness of the theory of communicative action for memory studies. Specifically, we intend to demonstrate that concepts characteristic of the discipline, such as “history,” “memory,” and “dialogue,” reflect three types of universal validity claims: “memory” formulates claims to authenticity, “history” formulates claims to truth, and “dialogue” formulates claims to rightness. Thus, it is possible to introduce a seminal Habermasian notion of rationality that rests on validity claims. This notion can serve to integrate, enrich, and identify blind spots in memory studies. Our purpose is to demonstrate the relevance of collective memory to social cohesion (cultural reproduction, social integration, and socialization) and the public sphere (its development and atrophy, rationalization, and colonization).

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Placing art in the city – the transformation of ideas

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Wołodźko A.

Studia Pedagogiczne

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2016

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vol. LXIX

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Pomiędzy praktyką i teorią. W poszukiwaniu modelu doskonalenia muzealników

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Barańska K.

Przegląd Zachodniopomorski

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2018

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issue 2

19-26

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The article presents theoretical assumptions essential to improve the professional competences of museologists / museum workers, and depicts the thematic blocks of the postgraduate studies run by the Institute of Culture of the Jagiellonian University.

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Artykuł poświęcony jest przedstawieniu założeń teoretycznych istotnych dla podnoszenia kompetencji zawodowych muzealników. Omówiono w nim poszczególne bloki tematyczne zajęć proponowanych przez Instytut Kultury UJ w ramach studiów podyplomowych „Zarządzanie muzeum”.

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Język muzeum, czyli o nowych sposobach odczytywania wystaw

THE MUSEUM SHOP IN POLAND. UNUSED SPACE OF INTERACTION AND A CHALLENGE FOR THE INSTITUTION’S MANAGERS

JEWISH MUSEUMS IN EUROPE: GENESIS AND PROFILE

DEPARTMENT OF MUSEUMS AND MONUMENTS OF POLISH MARTYROLOGY IN 1945–54 AND TO-DATE CONTINUATION OF ITS TASKS

MUSEUM DIVERSITY THROUGH THE LENS OF THE KYOTO DEFINITION

MUSEUM IN THE PROCESS. SELECTED TENDENCIES IN 20TH-CENTURY MUSEOLOGY

Mnemosyne in Museum and at School

Between an object and a tale: Strategies of local narratives construction in semi-peripheral museums

Dziedzictwo kulturowe w turystyce wiejskiej z perspektywy nowego muzealnictwa

Bringing Habermas to Memory Studies

Placing art in the city – the transformation of ideas

Pomiędzy praktyką i teorią. W poszukiwaniu modelu doskonalenia muzealników