Colecția Muzeului de Artă Populară Dr. Nicolae Minovici: artefacte, funcții și contexte
The collection of the Museum of Folk Art “Dr. Nicolae Minovici”: artefacts, functions and contexts

Summary/Abstract: The collection of the Museum of Folk Art “Dr. Nicolae Minovici”: artefacts, functions and contexts. Within a museum of folk art, one may see items that once had a utilitarian function in the Romanian areal. After their removal from this environment, items lost this funcion. Being brought in a museum, in a collection of items of folk art, exhibited according to aesthetic criteria, items bear just an aesthetic function. Visitors perceive objects only for their beauty and nothing more. Some recollect that they have seen them before, but a few know that the dowry chest or the wedding jar bore a distinct function, performed ritual, magic, symbolic and utilitarian functions. In this paper, I shall consider the collection of the Museum of Folk Art Dr. Nicolae Minovici. The subjects I shall treat in his paper are: Nicolae Minovici and the Museum of Folk Art “Dr. Nicolae Minovici”; Artefacts: stories and museification; The Dowry Chest; The Dowry Chest.

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