Year: 1970
Type: article
Abstract: James Clifford has proposed looking at museums as contact zones, where different knowledge systems meet. In a collaborative project between Alta Museum and Alta Secondary School in Finnmark, Norway, the museum made an attempt to open up the power relationship between the museum and students and families by giving space in the exhibitions to “private” objects and stories from everyday life. In this article, I discuss the opportunities and constraints associated with opening up the museum’s methodology for the objects and meanings that “the others” have considered worthy of preservation. I argue that the changing structures of museum practice may lead to new reflections on history and heritage in a museum context, and to the democratization of public cultural heritage production.
Source: Nordisk Museologi
DOI: 10.5617/nm.3100
Author: Eva D. Johansen
Language: English
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2545100658