Introduction
Periodicals
Museum: Museum and Regional Studies
2018/56/2
Muzea uprostřed „tekutého světa“
Muzea uprostřed „tekutého světa“
Michal Stehlík
Pages | 34-39 |
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DOI | 10.37520/mmvp-2018-0021 |
Citation | STEHLÍK, Michal. Muzea uprostřed „tekutého světa“. Museum: Museum and Regional Studies. Prague: National Museum, 2018, 56(2), 34-39. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37520/mmvp-2018-0021. ISSN 1803-0386. Also available from: https://publikace.nm.cz/en/periodicals/mmars/56-2/muzea-uprostred-tekuteho-sveta |
The text is an essay on the essence and future of museums in a quickly changing world distinctly characterized by the increase of available information in various forms, especially digital. The author uses André Kertész’s photograph “The Circus” to illustrate the transformation of the role of museums and refers to the works of Zygmunt Bauman and Vilém Flusser. The mentioned transformation brings big challenges regarding the approach towards documentation and creating a material and information basis for the memory of society, as well as towards collection creation and exposition and exhibition activities. A key role of museums has shown to be the anchoring of values such as tolerance, democracy and solidarity or vested human rights in society, and searching for new authorities
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