Наследство и традиции в очакванията на обществото и в социалните отговорности на музея. Един пример от Естонския национален музей
Heritage and Traditions in the Expectations of Society and in a Museum’s Social Responsibilities. An Example from the Estonian National Museum

Summary/Abstract: Modern museum faces many challenges. Museums balance themselves between the globalisation of cultural developments and the growing need for local communities to secure their roots and heritage; they operate on an intermediate level between the local and the global, the personal and the collective. In Estonia, the museum institution poses new questions in museology and ethnology about the possible meanings, roles and responsibilities that the museum has in society. In the article I will follow the expectations that society has toward the Estonian National Museum (ENM) and the social responsibilities and ambitions that the museum sees in itself. The ENM is in the planning stage of a new 30 000 m2 building, which will open in the year 2014. The national movements that spread through 19th century Europe also involved Estonia and as part of this process the ENM was founded in 1909 in Tartu. Different researches and public opinion surveys demonstrate that museums role in society is still related to the preservation and communication of national identity and national heritage and it is presented as the symbol of Estonianness.

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