Handcrafts: Where After Museum? Economuseums: Challenging the (Open Air) Museums or “New Reality” in Cultural Heritage Protection Cover Image

Занати: где после музеја? Економузеји: изазов музејима (на отвореном) или „нова реалност“ у очувању културног наслеђа
Handcrafts: Where After Museum? Economuseums: Challenging the (Open Air) Museums or “New Reality” in Cultural Heritage Protection

Author(s): Nikola Krstović
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: craft; open air museum – scansen; education; presentation,economuseum.

Summary/Abstract: The presentation and interpretation of handcrafts and trades are some of the most complex and challenging tasks in the open air museums operations. At the same time, considering the hypertextual characteristics of crafts, the integrative protection and holistic approach in representation are profound. Historical, social, cultural and economic backgrounds of handcrafts, not just its tools and products, even know-how, provoke traditional postulates of museums. Acctualy they provoke museum`s structure and politics almost to the point of complete re-defining. This change is a consequence of accepting contemporary museological thoughts embodied in new types of museums – economuseums. The main goal of this paper is percieving the possabilities of interaction and permeate between living craft heritage and space/simulacra/ mission of scansens, finaly real life itself and open air museums.

  • Issue Year: LX/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 79-92
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Serbian