Fake It Till You Make It! Heritage in Action as a Performative Strategy at the Kulturen Museum in Lund Cover Image

Fake It Till You Make It! Прилагането на наследството като сценична стратегия в музея Kulturen в Лунд, Швеция
Fake It Till You Make It! Heritage in Action as a Performative Strategy at the Kulturen Museum in Lund

Author(s): Lizette Gradén
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Museology & Heritage Studies, Customs / Folklore, Library and Information Science, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Sociology of Culture, Sociology of the arts, business, education
Published by: Институт за етнология и фолклористика с Етнографски музей при БАН
Keywords: history; museum management; performance; Scandinavian museums

Summary/Abstract: This article uses ethnographic methods to analyze how cultural and economic factors impact the way heritage is understood, preserved and developed at Kulturen and Fredriksdal, two of the oldest museums of cultural history museums in Sweden. Some questions offered for discussion will include: How does leadership understand and conceptualize cultural heritage? Whose cultural heritage count the most when related to financial circumstances and forms of ownership? Which priorities are made in the day to day work with collections, exhibitions and programming? Whose heritage is given priority in core exhibitions and whose heritage is prepared for a temporary show?

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 468-489
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Bulgarian