Musealization of the Present Age.The Transformation of the Present into History in Collection Strategies of Historical Museums

当代的博物馆化.历史博物馆收藏策略中的“现在”向“历史”的转变

基本信息

批准号：
318876851
负责人：
Professor Dr. Martin Sabrow
金额：
--
依托单位：
Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam e.V. (ZZF)
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Grants
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2016-12-31 至 2020-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/318876851?language=en
关键词：
Musealization Present Age.The Transformation into

项目摘要

History museums as institutions of memory are building cultural tradition by collecting material culture. Thus, they provide the empirical basis of material evidence used in research and presentation. Traditionally, museums have preserved objects of the past and things that are suspected to vanish. Lately a change of perspectives can be observed as museums turn their focus on collecting the material culture of the present age as well. It also becomes apparent that in exhibitions, beyond expectations of the authenticity of objects and of cultural significance, the public is aware of links to their own experience and time. This causes an inevitable change of museum work which corresponds with an increasing orientation towards the present in academic contemporary history in which time perspectives and the influence of the presence as future history is discussed.Through the perception of the present age museums begin to identify current material culture as objects to be collected under the perspective of representing a potential future history. To do so, they develop conceptions that intend to restructure contemporary everyday objects into cultural memory.The project aims to analyse how museums "make history" by collecting contemporary objects as future cultural and historical evidence. In this context a number of questions arise: How do museums meet the challenges of collecting the present? Which topics are addressed and how are they identified? Which interpretations of the historical significance of today´s society are influential? What are the selection criteria of collecting the contemporary? Is a systematic documentation of objects in contemporary society favoured or rather a project-oriented involvement? What can historians of contemporary history expect when they decide to include material culture in their research projects? How can museums help to provide material evidence for an expanded historiography that is interested material culture?The project aims to understand the appropriation of history by collecting contemporary material culture. To do so, the debates on collecting the contemporary and the diverse collection strategies will be analysed, curators interviewed and, to provide an empirical basis and manifest notion, collection catalogues will be evaluated and the collected objects inspected. The research will be conducted in museums devoted to a historical perspective on culture and society. The institutions chosen to analyse fall into three categories: national history museums, local history museums, and specialised museums.The project will cover the development of contemporary collecting from the 1920s until today. The analysis links questions raised in contemporary history and in museum studies by debating the building of material sources within their historical context and the understanding that museums develop about the contemporary as future history. The results of this research will be published in a mongraph.

历史博物馆的记忆是通过收集物质文化来建立传统的，因此，博物馆在研究和演示中使用的经验基础。将当今时代的物质文化集中在展览中，超出了对文化意义的真实性的期望讨论了存在的历史。通过现代博物馆的看法开始确定Curtore在压制潜在的未来的观点下，他们将当代物体发展为文化记忆。作为当前的文化和历史证据。当代历史期望将物质文化包括在其研究项目中？为了提供经验基础和明显的概念，将评估收集的对象，该研究将是文化和社会。当代收集1920年代的分析。