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Responsibility of Museums Towards Landscape: Discussion Based on Case Studies From Katowice, Kraków, and Warsaw

Publication date: 2020

Ethnographies, 2020, Volume 48, Issue 2, pp. 141 - 158

https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.20.012.12637

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Katarzyna Jagodzińska
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
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Melania Tutak
Podgórze Museum / Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa, Limanowskiego 51, 30-553 Kraków (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6379-7780 Orcid
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Titles

Responsibility of Museums Towards Landscape: Discussion Based on Case Studies From Katowice, Kraków, and Warsaw

Abstract

According to the Resolution no 1, adopted by the ICOM’s General Assembly in 2016, “Museums have a particular responsibility towards the landscape that surrounds them, urban or rural”. And thus, they should “manage buildings and sites of cultural landscape as ‘extended museums’, offering enhanced protection and accessibility to such heritage in closed relationship with communities”. This document arises from new museology thinking developed in the 1970s and 1980s. In the article we discuss this newly “codified”responsibility illustrated with an example of four Polish museums – Muzeum Śląskie in Katowice, Museum of King Jan III’s Palace at Wilanow, Muzeum Podgorza and Ethnographic Museum in Krakow –with intention to examine strategies and positions museums adopt, and contexts that determining those actions. We conclude that museums must play active parts in societies and take actions regarding changes in the landscape that surrounds them. However, the ICOM resolution is only a signpost, and broader recognition of museums as subjects of discussion on urban and rural space is required.

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Information: Ethnographies, 2020, Volume 48, Issue 2, pp. 141 - 158

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:
Responsibility of Museums Towards Landscape: Discussion Based on Case Studies From Katowice, Kraków, and Warsaw
English:

Responsibility of Museums Towards Landscape: Discussion Based on Case Studies From Katowice, Kraków, and Warsaw

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2290-410X

Katarzyna Jagodzińska
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2290-410X Orcid
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Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6379-7780

Melania Tutak
Podgórze Museum / Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa, Limanowskiego 51, 30-553 Kraków (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6379-7780 Orcid
All publications →

Podgórze Museum / Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa, Limanowskiego 51, 30-553 Kraków (Poland)

Published at: 2020

Article status: Open

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Percentage share of authors:

Katarzyna Jagodzińska (Author) - 50%
Melania Tutak (Author) - 50%

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