Professional paper

“Collecting” the present in ethnographic museums

Zvjezdana Antoš ; Ethnographic Museum, Zagreb

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to systematically explore and show the experience of experts in the European museums and the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb in contemporary collecting. When collecting objects from contemporary daily life, museums must also include the theoretical aspects in their practice, especially in the field of urban ethnology/anthropology and contemporary museology, which will expand the knowledge about the multiple meanings of these items. Museum collections have to be consistently interpreted and reinterpreted in order to deepen the knowledge on the items that are kept.

Keywords

everyday objects; contemporary collecting; ethnographic museum; virtual collection

Hrčak ID:

133475

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/133475

Publication date:

29.12.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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