Professional paper

THE WAY OF BETINA MUSEUM TO THE INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE

Jadran Kale ; Muzej grada Šibenika

Abstract

In August 2015 Tisno municipality opened its Museum of Betina
Wooden Shipbuilding and employed a curator/ethnologist,
thus completing an initiative that has lasted almost half a
century. The area is criss-crossed with navigational revivals
while the households of Betina itself are linked in certain
forms of the construction and fitting-out of wooden ships.
These factors provide a good introduction to weighing up the
importance and use of the concept of the intangible cultural
heritage in the design of an ethnographic museum. Some of
the lessons learned could be applied in museum work further
afield.
The opening of the Museum of Betina Wooden Shipbuilding
provides a graphic stimulus for a re-examination by the museum
discipline of the concept of the intangible cultural heritage,
for the manner in which knowledge about the vernacular
shipbuilding is conveyed corresponds to the greatest extent
to the model of the first statutory regulation of the intangible
cultural heritage in Japan, from which the UNESCO standard
was taken. On this occasion then we shall make use of the
invitation of the editors to give an outline of this recent heritage
category and list some of its implications for museums,
as well as for a review of the corresponding part of the Betina
project and the museum lessons learned

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Hrčak ID:

176835

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/176835

Publication date:

2.9.2016.

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