Metamorphosis of Value in the Battle Between Preservation and Allowing Decay

Smeds, Kerstin

doi:10.4000/iss.520

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“…Rather than discarding those objects, museums seem to prefer storing objects in abeyance until the day they are eventually rediscovered and can be effective in museal relationships. The deaccession of objects from museum collections has been much discussed in recent years (e.g., Smeds 2015;Olsen 2018;Ahlqvist Fig. 5.…”

Section: Musealization In the Second Home And In The Museummentioning

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“This is where we do it!”. Materiality, family, and musealization in second homes

Knudsen

2020

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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.

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Section: Musealization In the Second Home And In The Museummentioning

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“This is where we do it!”. Materiality, family, and musealization in second homes

Knudsen

2020

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“…Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 1998; Macdonald ed. 2006;Muñoz Viñas 2005;Smeds 2015;Sutton 2020). Still, nothing of this is mentioned or referred to inSindbaek's (2022) article.…”

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There is No Essential Museum

Owman¹

2022

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As a museologist, and having worked many years in museums of cultural history and on museum exhibitions, I always find it very inspiring and highly interesting to read well-thought-out texts about actual museum exhibitions, and Søren M. Sindbaek's (2022) article 'Pirates in the Age of Populism -New Viking Exhibitions in Stockholm and Copenhagen' is no exception. Well written, and with a clear stance, Sindbaek gives us a vivid overview, and an engaged review, of two recently opened Scandinavian exhibitions about the Vikings.If museums and museum exhibitions are to have an opportunity to develop, feedback of this sort is highly valuable. Heritage exhibition reviews are -at least in a Swedish context, with the now well-established digital museum magazine Utställningskritik, Exhibition Critique, at the forefront -entering the realm of professional criticism where reviews of literature, art and music have for ages created discussion and sparked debate, and this is just amazing. Sindbaek guides us through the two exhibitions with wit and authority; I have no problem at all in relating to his feeling of 'metal fatigue', having seen exhibitions with way too many objects in that material category.Another, more heartbreaking, highlight is Sindbaek's beautifully-captured reflection on the mounting of a block-lifted child's grave, the Birka Girl, in the exhibition at the Swedish History Museum. The 'star of the former exhibition ', Sindbaek (2022:13-14) writes, now seems a bit oddly placed: 'She is waiting in the corridor as you leave the last room, penned in

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Metamorphosis of Value in the Battle Between Preservation and Allowing Decay

Cited by 2 publications

References 8 publications

“This is where we do it!”. Materiality, family, and musealization in second homes

“This is where we do it!”. Materiality, family, and musealization in second homes

There is No Essential Museum

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