Scandinavian Museums and Cultural Diversity

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84545-577-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 215 mm x 270 mm, Gewicht: 739 g

Reihe: Museums and Diversity

Museums face the task of representing the similarities and differences that exist between groups, such as national identities and indigenous and minority voices, material and intangible heritage, and current status and past history. In order to achieve this aim, a complex and not always easily compatible set of interests have to be taken into account, from those of the museum itself, to those of its main audiences, sources of support, and the groups that are, or wish to be, represented. The approach taken by Scandinavian museums in response to this challenge highlights a very active concern for forms of cultural diversity and how they are interrelated.

By bringing together debates and discussions of diversity, this volume offers insight into the Nordic region and its diverse peoples, from the Sámi and the Inuit to newer immigrants. It presents a set of historical reviews on the formation of national museums and emerging and contested perceptions of national identity. Furthering the general debate on representations of diversity and museums, it also offers museum curators possible ways forward.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodnow, Katherine

Akman, Haci

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstsammlung, Museen, Ausstellungen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Jack Lohman

Introduction: The Construction of Identities: Introduction and Overview

Katherine Goodnow

SECTION I: MUSEUMS, NATIONAL MINORITIES AND THE INDIGENOUS

Chapter 1. Indigenous Peoples and National Minorities in Norway: Categorisation and Minority Politics

Einar Niemi

Chapter 2. Cultural Diversity at the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm: Outline of a Story

Eva Silvén

Chapter 3. Sámi Museums and Cultural Heritage

Vuokko Hirvonen

Chapter 4. Return of the Prodigal Son – But is the Seat Taken?

Peter Pentz

Chapter 5. An Appetite Whetted

Julie Edel Hardenberg and Iben Mondrop Salto

Chapter 6. The Danish Jewish Museum: A New Museum Asserts its Character

Janne Laursen

Chapter 7. Cultural Minorities in Danish Museums

Søren Kjørup

Chapter 8. Kven Culture and History in Museum Terms

Lena Aarekol

SECTION II: MUSEUMS AND "NEW MIGRANTS"

Chapter 9. The Museum of World Culture: A ‘Glocal’ Museum of a New Kind

Cajsa Lagerkvist

Chapter 10. Seeking the Multicultural in the Arts in Finland

Lily Diaz

Chapter 11. Norwegian Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow? A Joint Documentation Project

Liv Hilde Bøe

Chapter 12. Embroidered History

Lise Poulsen and Mette Skougaard

Chapter 13. Norwegian Kurdish Virtual Museum: A Presentation of Stateless Heritage

Janne Mellingen

Chapter 14. As in a Mirror

Hans Philip Einarsen and Bente Møller

Chapter 15. Botkyrka Multicultural Centre

Leif Magnusson

SECTION III: NATION AND HERITAGE

Chapter 16. Cultural Heritage, Cultural Diversity, and Museums in Sweden: Some Critical Reflections

Barbro Klein

Chapter 17. Intangible Cultural Heritage and Ethnographic Museum Practice in a Global Perspective

Inger Sjørslev

Chapter 18. Museums and Collective identity: A New Concept of the Nation?

Knut Kjeldstadli

Chapter 19. Pluralism, Cultural Heritage and the Museum

Haci Akman

Chapter 20. Representing Community: National Museums Negotiating Differences and Community in the Nordic Countries

Peter Aronsson

Chapter 21. Museums and Related Institutions on the Faroe Islands

Jóan Pauli Joensen

Chapter 22. The Negotiation of Identity within a National Museum: Iceland

Katla Kjartansdóttir and Kristinn Schram

Chapter 23. Exhibition Forms and Influential Circumstances

Katherine Goodnow

Über Autor(innen)

Goodnow, Katherine
Katherine Goodnow is Professor at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. She has published widely on museums and cultural diversity. Her most recent books in the field include Challenge and transformation: Museums in Cape Town and Sydney and Museums, the media and refugees: Stories of crisis, control and compassion. Goodnow combines research with filmmaking and has produced television series and documentaries for Norwegian national broadcasters.

Akman, Haci
Haci Akman is Associate Professor at the Department of Archaeology, History, Culture and Religious Science, University of Bergen. His research interests include migration, diaspora processes, ethnicity, cultural heritage and museums and diversity. Recent publications in these fields focus on Kurdish and Jewish diaspora societies in the United Kingdom and Norway. Akman is currently working on the development of the Norwegian Kurdish Virtual Museum.

Katherine Goodnow is Professor at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. She has published widely on museums and cultural diversity. Her most recent books in the field include Challenge and transformation: Museums in Cape Town and Sydney and Museums, the media and refugees: Stories of crisis, control and compassion. Goodnow combines research with filmmaking and has produced television series and documentaries for Norwegian national broadcasters.