TY - JOUR
TI - Visible, Unrecognisable – Recognisable, Silenced? Representations of Evangelism in Permanent Museum Exhibits in Masuria
AU - Sacha, Magdalena Izabella
TI - Visible, Unrecognisable – Recognisable, Silenced? Representations of Evangelism in Permanent Museum Exhibits in Masuria
AB - 
	The article addresses representations of the Evangelical denomination at contemporary permanent museum exhibits in the region of Masuria, inhabited between 1525–1945 by a Protestant majority. Applying semiotic analysis, the author presents the outcomes of field studies in the local museums in Olsztyn, Mikołajki, Mrągowo, Ogródek, Szczytno, and in the open-air museum in Olsztynek. The principal research question is the issue of visibility and recognisability of Evangelism-related items at permanent exhibits. The author concludes that there are three types of omissions in the presentation of the history of Masurian Evangelicals. The silencing of the Protestant past of Masuria results from the cultural colonisation that took place after 1945 and from identifying Evangelicalism with Germanness in the common consciousness of the currently dominant Polish Roman Catholic community.
VL - 2020
IS - Volume 53, Issue 4
PY - 2020
SN - 0137-2432
C1 - 2084-4077
SP - 319
EP - 332
DO - 10.4467/20844077SR.20.022.13040
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-religiologica/article/visible-unrecognisable-recognisable-silenced-representations-of-evangelism-in-permanent-museum-exhibits-in-masuria
KW - permanent exhibits
KW - museology
KW - Evangelism
KW - Masuria
KW - semiotic analysis