The materiality of family-inherited second homes offers a rich example of musealization in the private sphere. Presuming that relational socio-material practices that enact family culture and history take place at these houses, we conducted an observation and interview study by visiting ten family-inherited second homes in Denmark. In our analysis of these visits, we examine various practices by which musealization takes place in the second homes. We emphasize that the inherited second homes set scenes for musealization practices concerning a wide collective and temporally elongated family member circle. We also claim that unstable and undecided musealization practices can sometimes be useful for balancing past, present, and future claims of the second home’s materiality. We finally suggest that musealization practices in family-inherited second homes present vibrant and negotiable ways of relating to the past that might inspire cultural historical museums.
Klosterheden Plantage, Danmarks tredjestørste skovområde, ligger i Vestjylland. Området blev statsskov i 1880 og har siden ændret sig fra hede til skov. Driftsmæssigt har plantagen siden 1970’erne fået voksende fokus på andre formål end produktion af træ. Artiklen handler om, hvad Klosterheden anno 2022 betyder for de ca. 180.000 besøgende, som årligt kommer der. Baseret på et varieret datamateriale, herunder interview med skovens brugere, analyserer artiklen Klosterheden som rum for befolkningens rekreation og livsglæde. Vi argumenterer for, at Klosterheden for brugerne er en heterotopi – et ”andet” eller ”anderledes” sted.1 Mange kommer i skoven som en slags terapi eller for at få et frirum fra hverdagens pressede tidsplaner og gøremål. Alle nyder skoven, men de færreste kender de træ- og plantearter, som skaber dens heterotopiske kvaliteter. Sidst i artiklen diskuterer vi Klosterhedens heterotopiske kvaliteter i sammenhæng med Foucaults begreb om ”governmentality”, som viser sig i borgeres vilje til at styre sig selv i pagt med staten og arbejdsmarkedets ønsker og rationalitet.
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.
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