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Title: Uniform buttons within the context of the collection of the Waldes Museum of Buttons and
Fasteners
Abstract: The study deals with uniform buttons in the collection of the Waldes Museum of Buttons and Fasteners in Prague-Vršovice,
which was founded at the initiative of Prague industrialist and philanthropist Jindřich Waldes. Over the course of the museum’s
existence, from 1916 to 1945, the collection came to include more than 350 uniform buttons. This study tries to capture the
significance of the collection at the Waldes Museum, both as exhibits in themselves, and as study material connected with the
museum’s publication work or the building of a specialised archive and library on the other. It also presents selected exhibits from the
collection in question, together with other associated objects and specialised materials. The study draws on expert consideration of the
preserved collection, original publications and materials from the Waldes Museum Archive and specialised literature.
Author: Hrušková, Kateřina
Publication order reference: University of Hradec Králové, Philosophical Faculty, Institute of History, Rokitanského 62, 500 03
Hradec Králové 3, Czech Republic, e-mail: hruskka2@uhk.cz, katerina.hruskova@msb-jablonec.cz, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-
0001-6440-095X
Source: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, year: 2020, vol.:8, number: 4, pages: 5-21.
Key words: button, uniform, collecting, Waldes Museum Collection, Jindřich Waldes
Language: English
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DOI: 10.46284/mkd.2020.8.4.1
Title: “Bones in the sandbox”: museum as “world picture” vs museum as “lifeworld”
Abstract: This article deals with the issues of museum communication and interpretation of museum exhibits in a philosophical and
cultural context. As an example, it considers two different ways of presenting palaeontological material – specifically, the skeleton of a
southern mammoth – revealing differences in how the semantic content is interpreted. The first method – the traditional approach of
assembling the skeleton – gives a “world picture” of a certain era, as it appears to a palaeontologist. The second approach presents
the skeleton in a “sandbox”, representing how it was found during excavations, such that viewers deal not with the interpreted “ready-
made” material, but with the contemporary experienced reality – the “life-world”, the “raw” source material. This allows visitors to
realize their own creative potential and to recreate the nature of the Pleistocene epoch in their imagination. Thus, through the mutual
correlation of the roles exhibition’s author and of the visitor as an interpreter, the semantic field of museum communication expands. In
Heidegger’s conception, a “ hides the world rather than explains it, while the “life world” represents it as it is.
Authors: Plokhotnyuk, Vladimir; Przhilenskaya, Irina; Przhilenskiy, Vladimir
Publication order reference: North Caucasus Federal University, Institute of Engineering, Department of Design, 1 Pushkin Street,
355009, Stavropol, Russian Federation, e-mail: plvl@mail.ru; Institute of Social Studies and Humanities, Head of Department of
Cultural Studies, 88 Vernadskogo Street, 119571, Moscow, Russian Federation, e-mail: prz-irina@mail.ru; Kutafin Moscow State Law
University (MSAL), Department of Philosophy and Sociology9 Sadovaya-Kudrunskaya Street, 125993, Moscow, Russian Federation,
e-mail: vladprnow@mail.ru
Source: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, year: 2020, vol.:8, number: 4, pages: 23-34.
Keywords: southern mammoth skeleton, palaeontology, museum exhibit presentation, interpretation, Heidegger, world picture
Language: English
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DOI: 10.46284/mkd.2020.8.4.2
Title: Professional standards in museum pedagogy in the international context
Abstract: Professional standards of museum work are defined by the clearly formulated International Council of Museums (ICOM)
Code of Ethics and by the activity of professional organisations on both national and international levels. The goal to establish the
general requirements for the education of museum workers was mainly pursued by the ICOM and some of its committees. Since
museum pedagogy has developed into an independent discipline and museum pedagogue (educator) has became a full-value
profession, the specialised commissions within individual professional organisations and the efforts of individual researchers have
helped to gradually transform these general requirements into specific standards of museum pedagogy. These standards reflect both
the scope of activities and necessary competencies of museum pedagogues, and the expected quality of education practice in
museums (best practice). The varied views of professional standards for museum pedagogues in the international context represent a
source of inspiration in the sphere of Czech museum pedagogy, which is undergoing a dynamic development in several areas of its
activities (educational practice, consolidated legislative position) and gradually formulating its own professional standards.
Author: Jagošová, Lucie
Publication order reference: Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology and Museology, Arna Nováka 1, 602 00
Brno, Czech Republic & Comenius University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Ethnology and Museology, Gondova 2, 811 01 Bratislava,
Slovakia, email: jagosova@phil.muni.cz
Source: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, year: 2020, vol.:8, number: 4, pages: 35-47.
Keywords: professional standards, museum pedagogue, museum work, museum pedagogy
Language: English
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DOI: 10.46284/mkd.2020.8.4.3
Title: Museological school as a process of professional formation based on traditions and
innovations: Crimean foreshortening
Abstract: In this article, we describe the activities of the “Museum Studio”, which opened in Koktebel in 2016. The history of Russian
museology and international experience are two important pillars on which the School is based. Today, the School is a platform for
educational events and discussions with the participation of leading Russian and foreign experts. The platform has developed an
innovative model of interaction with specialists seeking to improve their qualification level. The main ideas and formats of this model
are covered in this article.
Author: Chuvilova, Irina
Publication order reference: Research Group “Russian Museum Encyclopedia”, (New Institute for Cultural Research), Vasilievskaya
str., 13-1, 123056 Moscow, Russian Federation, e-mail: ivl12@yandex.ru
Source: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, year: 2020, vol.:8, number: 4, pages: 49-57.
Keywords: museology, museum history, mid-career education, inter-museum cooperation
Language: English
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DOI: 10.46284/mkd.2020.8.4.4
Title: Musealisation of communism, or how to create national identity in historical museums
Abstract: The goal of the article is to critically analyse and deconstruct museum narratives about communism in East-Central Europe
30 years after transformation. The research material is museum exhibitions interpreted in accordance with the methodology of visual
research (composition analysis, content analysis, analysis of material objects, and analysis of meanings). The first and most important
museum type from the perspective of the memory cano The Act of 6 June 1997 Penal Code (Journal of Laws of 1997, item 553). Art.
125. § 1. Whoever destroys, damages or takes away a cultural object in an occupied area or in which military operations are taking
place, violating international law, shall be subject to the penalty of deprivation of liberty for a term of between one and 10 years. § 2. If
the act concerns goods of particular importance for culture, the perpetrator shall be subject to the penalty of deprivation of liberty for
not less than 3 years. Art. 278. § 1. Whoever takes away someone else’s movable property for the purpose of appropriation shall be
subject to the penalty of deprivation of liberty for a term of between 3 months and 5 years. § 2. The same punishment shall be
imposed on anyone who, without the consent of the authorised person, obtains someone else’s computer program in order to gain
financial benefits. § 3. In the case of an act of a lesser significance, the perpetrator is subject to a fine, limitation of liberty or
deprivation of liberty for one year. § 4. If the theft was committed to the detriment of the closest person, the prosecution takes place at
the request of the injured party. Art. 279. § 1. Whoever steals by burglary is punishable by imprisonment from one to 10 years. § 2. If
the burglary was committed to the detriment of the closest person, the prosecution takes place at the request of the injured party. n, as
it represents the official historical policy of most East-European states, is the so-called identity or heroic museum. Its purpose is not so
much to show the truth about the past but to create the collective memory of a society and its positive self-image.
Author: Ziębińska-Witek, Anna
Publication order reference: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Institut of History
Poland, email: anna.ziebinska-witek@poczta.umcs.lublin.pl, ORCID: 0000-0003-2682-748X
Source: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, year: 2020, vol.:8, number: 4, pages: 59-72.
Keywords: historical museum, exhibition, communism, collective memory, narratives
Language: English
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DOI: 10.46284/mkd.2020.8.4.5
Title: VR technologies as an extension to the museum exhibition: A case study of the Silk Road
museums in Samarkand
Abstract: The geographical dispersion of the Silk Road generates a number of problems with the availability of its heritage for visitors.
ICT can at least partially address these problems. This article discusses the concept of extending the Silk Road museums’ offer with
virtual reality (VR) technologies, which has been tested based on a virtual exhibition, developed through a long-term cooperation
between Lublin University of Technology and museums in Samarkand in the field of 3D digitization and dissemination of their
exhibitions. A survey of a group of spectators was conducted and its results are discussed. It revealed that VR is a promising
technology, widely accepted among spectators and well suited for the specificity of the Silk Road museums, and it could be used
primarily to complement traditional exhibitions.
Authors: Żyła, Kamil; Montusiewicz, Jerzy; Skulimowski, Stanisław; Kayumov, Rahim
Publication order reference: Lublin University of Technology – Department of Computer Science, Nadbystrzycka 36B, 20-618 Lublin,
Republic of Poland, e-mail: k.zyla@pollub.pl; Lublin University of Technology – Department of Computer Science, Nadbystrzycka 36B,
20-618 Lublin, Republic of Poland, e-mail: j.montusiewicz@pollub.pl; Lublin University of Technology – Department of Computer
Science, Nadbystrzycka 36B, 20-618 Lublin, Republic of Poland, e-mail: s.skulimowski@pollub.pl; Samarkand State University –
Scientific-Experimental Museum-Laboratory, University Boulevard 15, 703004 Samarkand, Republic of Uzbekistan, e-mail: rahim-
kayumov@rambler.ru
Source: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, year: 2020, vol.:8, number: 4, pages: 73-93.
Keywords: museum, virtual reality, virtual museum exhibitions, Silk Road, exploratory survey
Language: English
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DOI: 10.46284/mkd.2020.8.4.6
Title: How to exhibit a human mummy in a former monastery? The case of the body of Michael
Willmann (1630–1706)
Abstract: This paper discusses the mummified body of Michael Willmann (1630–1706) – one of the most outstanding painters of the
Baroque period in Central Europe. Willmann’s mummy was preserved in the crypt of the former Cistercian monastery church in
Lubiąż, Silesia (Poland). The article presents the history of the mummy and possibilities for opening the crypt and displaying it to the
public, following the example of similar expositions in Europe which have found respectful and sensitive solutions for presenting the
bodies of the deceased (e.g. Capuchin Crypt in Palermo and Capuchin Church in Brno). Willmann’s mummy is not only the body of an
artist, but also a part of the cultural heritage of the Lubiąż Cistercians, making it worthy museification. This issue is particularly
important in the context of the plans for establishing the Michael Willmann Museum in the former Cistercian monastery church in
Lubiąż.
Author: Kozieł, Andrzej
Publication order reference: University of Wroclaw, Institute of Art History, ul. Szewska 36, 50-139 Wrocław
Poland, e-mail: andrzej.koziel@uwr.edu.pl
Source: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, year: 2020, vol.:8, number: 4, pages: 95-105.
Keywords: Michael Willmann, mummy, the monastery crypt, Lubiąż, Cistercians, exposition
Language: English
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DOI: 10.46284/mkd.2020.8.4.7
Title: Synagogue Decorations in Present-Day Ukraine: Practice in Preservation of Cultural and
Artistic Heritage
Abstract: There are approximately ten historical synagogue buildings left in Ukraine today which continue, to varying extents, to
preserve their original wall paintings and decoration. A number of these were only recently discovered. The attempts underway,
beginning in the early 2000s, to preserve as well as uncover old paintings often produce the opposite effect, destroying authentic
works. The cultural significance of these historical landmarks requires that they be included in a single international register, along with
supervision and an agreed upon preservation program designed individually for each. Synagogue wall paintings will inevitably perish
unless ways of transferring this heritage are sought that will move these works to a different and more reliable “medium of cultural
memory”. Different, innovative approaches to museum preservation and ways of presenting these works to public view are called for.
Among the tried and tested options are: reconstructing old synagogue interiors which contain wall or ceiling paintings; using motifs
taken from the original paintings in new works being produced for the Jewish community; and work on exhibition projects, catalogues
and two-dimensional reconstruction models.
Authors: Kotlyar, Eugeny; Sokolyuk, Lyudmyla; Pavlova, Tetiana
Publication order reference: Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Department of Monumental Paintings, Vul. Mystetstv, 8,
61002 Kharkiv, Ukraine, e-mail: eugeny.kotlyar@gmail.com; Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Department of Theory and
History of Arts, Vul. Mystetstv, 8, 61002 Kharkiv, Ukraine, e-mail: sokolyuk_l@ukr.net; Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts,
Department of Visual Practice, Vul. Mystetstv, 8, 61002 Kharkiv, Ukraine, e-mail: pavlovat@yahoo.com
Source: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, year: 2020, vol.:8, number: 4, pages: 111-136.
Keywords: Ukraine, synagogue wall paintings, state, conservation, presentation
Language: English
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DOI: 10.46284/mkd.2020.8.4.8
Title: Against the “Moonlight and Magnolia” myth of the American South. A new materialist approach
to the dissonant heritage of slavery in the US: The case of Whitney Plantation in Wallace, LA
Abstract: The article presents an analysis of the operations of the Whitney Plantation Museum, which opened in 2014 in Wallace, LA
(USA), situated within the context of plantation heritage tourism in the American South. The argumentation offers an illustration of the
significant transition, even though still of marginal character, of the dominant tendencies of representing slavery in heritage sites
(plantation museums) devoted to cultivating knowledge about the history of the region. New materialist in its orientation, the analysis
subscribes to the most fundamental assumption of this philosophical tendency, namely that knowledge is generated in material-
semiotic ways, and applies this approach in an enquiry into the educational experience offered to visitors by this heritage site. The
article argues that although the emergence of institutions such as Whitney Plantation is meant to pluralise the memorial landscape of
a given community, rather than serving as multivocal spaces they tend to remain steeped in fragmentation.
Author: Golańska, Dorota
Publication order reference: University of Lodz, Faculty of Philology, Department of Cultural Research, Poland, e-mail
dorota.golanska@uni.lodz.pl
Source: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, year: 2020, vol.:8, number: 4, pages: 137-160.
Keywords: Dissonant heritage; slavery; plantation tourism; Whitney Plantation Museum; new materialism
Language: English
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DOI: 10.46284/mkd.2020.8.4.9
Title: African Art: The Journey from Ethnological Collection to the Museum of Art
Abstract: This article aims to show the transformation in the way African art is displayed in museums which has taken place over the
last few decades. Over the last 70 years, from the second half of the twentieth century, the field of African Art studies, as well as the
forms taken by art exhibitions, have changed considerably. Since W. Rubin’s controversial exhibition Primitivism in 20th Century Art at
MoMA (1984), art originating from Africa has begun to be more widely presented in museums with a strictly artistic profile, in contrast
to the previous exhibitions which were mostly located in ethnographical museums. This could be the result of the changes that have
occurred in the perception of the role of museums in the vein of new museology and the concept of a “curatorial turn” within
museology. But on the other hand, it seems that the recognition of the artistic values of old and contemporary art from the African
continent allows art dealers to make large profits from selling such works. This article also considers the evolution of the idea of
African art as a commodity and the modern form of presentations of African art objects. The current breakthrough exhibition at the
Bode Museum in Berlin is thoroughly analysed. This exhibition, entitled Beyond compare, presents unexpected juxtapositions of old
works of European art and African objects of worship. Thus, the major purpose of this article is to present various benefits of shifting
meaning from “African artefacts” to “African objects of art,” and therefore to relocate them from ethnographic museums to art
museums and galleries.
Author: Pawłowska, Aneta
Publication order reference: Department of Art History, University of Łódź, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2847-4403,
aneta.pawlowska@uni.lodz.pl
Source: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, year: 2020, vol.:8, number: 4, pages: 161-176.
Keywords: African art, museum, exhibitions, contemporary art, Beyond Compare
Language: English
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DOI: 10.46284/mkd.2020.8.4.10
In Practice
Title: Protection of national heritage in the light of the applicable law and the actions provided in this
area by police in Poland
Abstract: The issue of national heritage is an inseparable element of the existence of every nation. The article presents the legal
regulations aimed at the protection of cultural heritage in Poland, as well as statistical data relating to crime in this area. The solutions
adopted by the Polish police in the field of the identifying and combating of crime against cultural property and national heritage are
also described. Furthermore, the article highlights the most serious crime against the national heritage that has occurred in Poland in
recent years. The subject article was prepared on the basis of the analysis of literature, existing legislation and two interviews with
Polish police officers.
Authors: Dworzecki, Jacek; Nowicka, Izabela; Urbanek, Andrzej; Kwiatkowski, Adam
Publication order reference: Military University of the Land Forces in Wroclaw, Academy of the Police Force in Bratislava, e-mail:
jacek.dworzecki@awl.edu.pl, ORCID: 0000-0002-9357-5713; Military University of the Land Forces in Wroclaw, e-mail:
izabela.nowicka@awl.edu.pl, ORCID: 0000-0001-8974-0803; Pomeranian University in Slupsk, e-mail: andrzej.urbanek@apsl.edu.pl,
ORCID: 0000-0003-0667-4068; Pomeranian University in Slupsk, e-mail: adam.kwiatkowski@apsl.edu.pl, ORCID: 0000-0002-0054-
6375
Source: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, year: 2020, vol.:8, number: 4, pages: 177-198.
Keywords: national heritage, Poland, law, statistical terms
Language: English
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DOI: 10.46284/mkd.2020.8.4.11
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