Scandinavian Museums and Cultural Diversity
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Scandinavian Museums and Cultural Diversity

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Scandinavian Museums and Cultural Diversity

About this book

Museums face the task of representing the similarities and differences that exist between groups, such as national identities and indigenous and minority voices, material and intangible heritage, and current status and past history. In order to achieve this aim, a complex and not always easily compatible set of interests have to be taken into account, from those of the museum itself, to those of its main audiences, sources of support, and the groups that are, or wish to be, represented. The approach taken by Scandinavian museums in response to this challenge highlights a very active concern for forms of cultural diversity and how they are interrelated.

By bringing together debates and discussions of diversity, this volume offers insight into the Nordic region and its diverse peoples, from the Sámi and the Inuit to newer immigrants. It presents a set of historical reviews on the formation of national museums and emerging and contested perceptions of national identity. Furthering the general debate on representations of diversity and museums, it also offers museum curators possible ways forward.

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Information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9781845455774
eBook ISBN
9781789204049
Edition
1
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Museum Studies

Table of contents

  1. Scandinavian museums and cultural diversity
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. The construction of identities
  6. Today’s museum
  7. Section I. Museums, national minorities and the indigenous
  8. Chapter 1. Indigenous peoples and national minorities in Norway
  9. Chapter 2. Cultural diversity at the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm
  10. Chapter 3. Sámi museums and cultural heritage
  11. Chapter 4. Return of the prodigal son
  12. Chapter 5. An appetite whetted
  13. Chapter 6. The Danish Jewish Museum
  14. Chapter 7. Cultural minorities in Danish museums
  15. Chapter 8. Kven culture and history in museum terms
  16. Section II. Museums and “new migrants”
  17. Chapter 9. The Museum of World Culture
  18. Chapter 10. Seeking the multicultural in the arts in Finland
  19. Chapter 11. Norwegian Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow?
  20. Chapter 12. Embroidered history
  21. Chapter 13. Norwegian Kurdish Virtual Museum
  22. Chapter 14. As in a mirror
  23. Chapter 15. The Multicultural Centre, Botkyrka, Sweden
  24. Section III. Nation and heritage
  25. Chapter 16. Cultural heritage, cultural diversity and museums in Sweden
  26. Chapter 17. Intangible cultural heritage and ethnographicmuseum practice in a global perspective
  27. Chapter 18. Museums and collective identity
  28. Chapter 19. Pluralism, cultural heritage and the museum
  29. Chapter 20. Representing community
  30. Chapter 21. Museums and related institutions on the FaroeIslands
  31. Chapter 22. Renegotiating identity in the National Museumof Iceland
  32. Chapter 23. Exhibition forms and influential circumstances
  33. Notes on the contributors
  34. Index