Retrocedarea memoriei bunurilor culturale – spre o nouă politică muzeală?
Restituting the Memory of Cultural Goods – Towards a New Museum Policy?

Summary/Abstract: The intention of this paper is to talk about the importance of knowing the history of each cultural object that museums have. Due to our historical and political development, today many museums have objects without history or memory. The article explains how those objects became so short in terms of history by appealing to the cultural politics practiced during the communist regime in Romania. The mile stones in the cultural change are obviously the political decisions that were put in juridical papers and made to become law. So, the enquiry follows the process of memory restitution all the way back from law to action in the museums field. The two main examples came from two art collections that were spread through new born museums, so that their interwar history and owners would be forgotten. Finally, the aim is to decrypt the road back to the history and memory of each piece so that we can regain a part of the bigger picture in our cultural history and take responsibility on our communist history.

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