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Towards the Definiton of New Criteria for and Approaches to Collecting of Items for Museum Collections

Zvjezdana Antoš ; Etnografski muzej, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

Documenting and researching of everyday life and contemporary
culture are extraordinarily important factors in today's activities of
ethnographic museums and therefore a frequent subject of international
conferences of ethnographic museums. Ethnographic
museums have different approaches to collecting, which is the
cause of initiative of contemporary museological and ethnological
practice for creating the new criteria for and approaches to collecting
of items for museum collections. The museums work and act
in an atmosphere of never ending questioning and discussions on
which items from everyday life should be collected and according
to which criteria. The aim of this paper is to give a critical review
of the collecting practice of the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb
so far and to try to discuss the items of today's global mass production
that should be collected for museum collections.

Keywords

ethnographical museums; museum collections; Ethnographic museum Zagreb

Hrčak ID:

37781

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/37781

Publication date:

5.1.2004.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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