Scandinavian museums and cultural diversity / edited by Katherine Goodnow and Haci Akman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goodnow, Katherine J., editor.

Akman, Haci, editor.

Unesco.

Series:

Museums and Diversity ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museums--Scandinavia.

Museums.

Museums--Social aspects--Scandinavia.

Cultural pluralism--Scandinavia.

Cultural pluralism.

Ethnicity--Scandinavia.

Ethnicity.

Multiculturalism--Scandinavia.

Multiculturalism.

Scandinavia--Ethnic relations.

Scandinavia.

Scandinavia--Cultural policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxv, 266 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Museum of London : Berghahn Books, 2008.

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.

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

Notes:

"UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789204049

1789204046

OCLC:

1273455607