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Abstract
In museums, objects are under constant scrutiny and surveillance. To keep and understand them, multidisciplinary teams of heritage scientists, historians and educators collaborate to unravel their physical and inherent cultural values. These scholars glean a myriad of results that, again filtered, they make available to mixtures of visitors, only a fraction of whom are acquainted with the making and meaning of the displayed objects. This chapter considers the complexities of dealing with these activities, whether hands-on or more intellectually, in relation to the complicated notions of cultural, sacred and secular values. A broad variety of philosophical and pragmatic approaches to keeping museum objects underscores how complex it can be to ensure that heritage objects can be viewed for the joy and inspiration they offer – sacred or secular – and without precluding pleasure and reflection, that they will also remain extraordinary resources for a broader understanding of civilization.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Medieval Church Art & Its Afterlife in Scandinavia : Tracing Material & Cultural Transformations |
Editors | Noëlle Streeton, Tine Frøysaker, Peter Bjerregaard |
Number of pages | 17 |
Volume | 98 |
Publisher | Brill Academic Publishers |
Publication date | 16 Dec 2024 |
Pages | 385-401 |
Chapter | 12 |
ISBN (Print) | 9789004707573 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9789004712034 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 16 Dec 2024 |
Series | Northern World |
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Volume | 98 |
ISSN | 1569-1462 |
Projects
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ABD-project: After the Black Death: Painting and Polychrome Sculpture in Norway, 1350-1550
Frøysaker, T. (Project manager, organisational), Streeton, N. (Project manager, academic), Randin, K. (Project manager, organisational), Wadum, J. (Project manager, academic), Vila , A. (Project participant), Daly, A. (Project participant), Willerslev, R. (Project participant), Kutzke, H. (Project participant) & von Bonsdorff, J. (Project participant)
01/08/2014 → 30/11/2018
Project: Research