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Scandinavian Museums and Cultural Diversity / ed. by Haci Akman, Katherine Goodnow.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Museums and Diversity ; 4Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845455774
  • 9781789204049
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 069.0948 22
LOC classification:
  • AM61.5 .S28 2008
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- The construction of identities: introduction and overview -- Today’s museum: challenges for museums functioning in a mass culture -- Section I. Museums, national minorities and the indigenous -- CHAPTER 1 Indigenous peoples and national minorities in Norway: categorisation and minority politics -- CHAPTER 2 Cultural diversity at the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm: outline of a story -- CHAPTER 3 Sámi museums and cultural heritage -- CHAPTER 4 Return of the prodigal son – but is the seat taken? -- CHAPTER 5 An appetite whetted -- CHAPTER 6 The Danish Jewish Museum: a new museum asserts its character -- CHAPTER 7 Cultural minorities in Danish museums: the Danish Jewish Museum -- CHAPTER 8 Kven culture and history in museum terms -- Section II. Museums and “new migrants” -- CHAPTER 9 The Museum of World Culture: a “glocal” museum of a new kind -- CHAPTER 10 Seeking the multicultural in the arts in Finland -- CHAPTER 11 Norwegian Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow? A joint documentation project -- CHAPTER 12 Embroidered history -- CHAPTER 13 Norwegian Kurdish Virtual Museum: a presentation of stateless heritage -- CHAPTER 14 As in a mirror -- CHAPTER 15 The Multicultural Centre, Botkyrka, Sweden -- Section III. Nation and heritage -- CHAPTER 16 Cultural heritage, cultural diversity and museums in Sweden: some critical reflections -- CHAPTER 17 Intangible cultural heritage and ethnographic museum practice in a global perspective -- CHAPTER 18 Museums and collective identity: a new concept of “nation”? -- CHAPTER 19 Pluralism, cultural heritage and the museum -- CHAPTER 20 Representing community: national museums negotiating differences and the community in the Nordic countries -- CHAPTER 21 Museums and related institutions on the Faroe Islands -- CHAPTER 22 Renegotiating identity in the National Museum of Iceland -- CHAPTER 23 Exhibition forms and influential circumstances -- Notes on the contributors -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- The construction of identities: introduction and overview -- Today’s museum: challenges for museums functioning in a mass culture -- Section I. Museums, national minorities and the indigenous -- CHAPTER 1 Indigenous peoples and national minorities in Norway: categorisation and minority politics -- CHAPTER 2 Cultural diversity at the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm: outline of a story -- CHAPTER 3 Sámi museums and cultural heritage -- CHAPTER 4 Return of the prodigal son – but is the seat taken? -- CHAPTER 5 An appetite whetted -- CHAPTER 6 The Danish Jewish Museum: a new museum asserts its character -- CHAPTER 7 Cultural minorities in Danish museums: the Danish Jewish Museum -- CHAPTER 8 Kven culture and history in museum terms -- Section II. Museums and “new migrants” -- CHAPTER 9 The Museum of World Culture: a “glocal” museum of a new kind -- CHAPTER 10 Seeking the multicultural in the arts in Finland -- CHAPTER 11 Norwegian Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow? A joint documentation project -- CHAPTER 12 Embroidered history -- CHAPTER 13 Norwegian Kurdish Virtual Museum: a presentation of stateless heritage -- CHAPTER 14 As in a mirror -- CHAPTER 15 The Multicultural Centre, Botkyrka, Sweden -- Section III. Nation and heritage -- CHAPTER 16 Cultural heritage, cultural diversity and museums in Sweden: some critical reflections -- CHAPTER 17 Intangible cultural heritage and ethnographic museum practice in a global perspective -- CHAPTER 18 Museums and collective identity: a new concept of “nation”? -- CHAPTER 19 Pluralism, cultural heritage and the museum -- CHAPTER 20 Representing community: national museums negotiating differences and the community in the Nordic countries -- CHAPTER 21 Museums and related institutions on the Faroe Islands -- CHAPTER 22 Renegotiating identity in the National Museum of Iceland -- CHAPTER 23 Exhibition forms and influential circumstances -- Notes on the contributors -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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