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This article evaluates how nationalist narratives affect the display of Roman artefacts in national museums. The unique nature of national museums as 'cultural constitutions' and arbiters of the 'Authorised Heritage Discourse' is discussed. This article builds upon previous work by demonstrating how nationalist influence affects the display of Roman artefacts, specifically through the use of two case studies: the British Museum in London and the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Museum displays are assessed for indications of nationalist influence through consideration of the use of space and collection composition as well as textual analysis of gallery signage and artefact descriptions. The two museums' divergent approaches to national narrative are then compared.

One of the urgent problems of domestic librarianship is highlighted, namely, the composition and content of book monuments stored in regional centers. These include the Aldan-Maadyr National Museum of the Republic of Tyva, one of the subjects of the Siberian Federal District of the Russian Federation. In 2011 the rare book sector was created in the museum, which concentrates the book monuments. The purpose of the article is to analyze printed publications published in the Tuvan People’s Republic, and now are the part of the book monuments of the National Museum of the Republic. It describes their composition, content and state of preservation. Newspapers, magazines, books, brochures and other types of printed products issued in the Tuvan People’s Republic give an idea of the state of the book culture of the country existed for twenty-three years: from 1921 to 1944. It shows the origin of printing and its development and graphic basis of local book publishing, its thematic repertoire and other aspects. The article gives recommendations on treatment of printed publications of the Tuvan People’s Republic, which can help to expand the directions and topics of museum information, educational, educational activities intended for the general public.

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As nationalist and populist rhetorics have gained momentum in Central and Southeastern Europe, there is an urgency to disentangle the historical narratives and political agendas displayed by national museum paradigms. And yet, equally significant is the urgency to illuminate the strategies and mnemonic devices through which the past is rendered worthy of commemoration, both in those memory cultures that come to life in opposition, or those which are complementary to the national museum's paradigms. In line with these considerations, this special issue addresses the vernacular dimension of public memory, with a special focus on those memory cultures instantiated by mnemonic actors who do not necessarily possess the public epistemic authority to materialize their narratives about violent pasts as official memories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Classical Antiquity Collection in the National Museum was recently enriched by the donation of an assemblage of pottery sherds. Following a careful and systematic procedure, it became possible to recon struct almost an entire vessel. Subsequent analysis revealed that we were dealing with an early South Italian red figure bell krater. Its style of painting dates the vase to the early 4th century BC, making it close to the workshop of the Sisyphus Painter.

During the 1960s, tapestries from Swedish art and craft centres in southern Africa were acclaimed in the Nordic country as an outcome of its own expertise and largesse. Yet when these works by marginalised women artists in Africa were exhibited at the National Museum in Stockholm in 1970, they were dismissed as the fruits of Swedish cultural imperialism and naive artistic minds. Despite the ensuing public debate, the exhibition and its discourses, like the works themselves, are little known in southern Africa and now largely forgotten in Sweden. In considering the visual vocabularies of some of these tapestries, many of which were woven at the renowned centre at Rorke's Drift in KwaZulu-Natal, this article addresses the implications of these Swedish 'culture-rescue' projects, showing how women's artistic 'voices' on the subcontinent were silenced, not merely by apartheid suppression but also in Swedish representations. By interrogating the attitudes that the audiences of the exhibitions held towards black women artists, the article reveals how the tapestries' woven iconographies were a complex response to circumstance, covertly interrogating white hegemony while invested with self-definition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A list of 58 specimens of bats belonging to 16 species of six families originating from Benin, housed in the collection of the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, is presented in a systematic review. The specimens represent 24 new records (species vs. locality) of bats from Benin. The species lists are complemented by comments on distribution and morphometric data. The collection contains three species new for the Beninese fauna, Hipposideros jonesi, H. abae, and H. cf. lamottei, and the bat fauna of Benin now comprises 55 species in total. Scotophilus nigrita is documented from Benin for the second time, and for the first time from a specific record site in this country. Besides the majority of common bat species, considering their available records in Benin, the collection includes several other species rather uncommon in the country, such as Rhinolophus fumigatus, Hipposideros cf. ruber, Pseudoromicia rendalli, or Scotophilus livingstonii. In two of the latter group of species, the molecular genetic analysis revealed new extents of distribution for particular mitochondrial lineages in Benin, like the D lineage of H. cf. ruber or S. livingstonii s.str. As complete as possible check-list of the Beninese bat fauna comprising all known record localities is included. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The National Museum belongs to the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and suffered a tragic fire a few months after celebrating its bicentennial in 2018. It is the oldest science institution in Brazil. Its collection reveals many stories. This article analyzes the trajectory of the Quintino Pacheco Collection and the Libertadora raft, both gathered in the last decade of slavery and directly related to the struggle for freedom. The social lives of these artifacts reveal the human actions that gave them meaning and it is in our interest to understand how different actors place the value of these objects in dispute.

Non-formal education is of great importance for science teaching, as it provides conditions for social inclusion. In this sense, this article aims to make an experience report on a Supervised Internship program of the Licentiate in Letters/Libras course at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) at the National Museum (MN). Thus, two (2) activities for MN employees were carried out in partnership with the MN Teaching Assistance Section Team (SAE): an Introduction to Libras Workshop and participation in the MN Mediators Course. In addition to an experience report, this work also ended up helping to build the affective memory of the MN after the tragic fire of 2018. In the end, it was observed that the classes offered contributed to the process of training popularizers, which greatly collaborates to favor accessibility for the deaf. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Type specimens from the collection of Hymenoptera deposited in the Department of Entomology, National Museum, Prague are currently being catalogued. In this part of the catalogue dealing with the family Braconidae, we present precise information about 27 taxa belonging to the subfamilies Brachistinae (1 species), Cheloninae (1 species), Doryctinae (1 species), Euphorinae (2 species), Gnamptodontinae (1 species), Lysiterminae (1 species), Microgastrinae (2 species), Opiinae (15 species) and Orgilinae (3 species), including holotypes of 20 species. Current status, distribution, and photos are given for each taxon. Additionally, one missing type and one historically important specimen are mentioned in the catalogue with detailed information about them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Opening of the permanent exhibition History of the 20th century became the impulse for the Department of Education and Cultural Activities to rethink the strategy of museum education. As the contemporary debates on transformation of history didactics suggest, there is a lot of potential in Inquiry based learning. Would the integration of Inquiry based learning be suitable also in the field of museum education? This text will focus on applying of these methods into educational programs for elementary and high school students in the exhibition History of the 20th century, the creation process of these programmes and its possibilities together with pitfalls. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Thanks to various factors, the National Museum has managed to collect a relatively large number of items related to the topic of modern parliamentarism, many of which have been increasingly presented to the public in recent years at exhibitions, in expositions, and on digital platforms. The goal of this study is to provide the public with a basic overview of items related to parliamentarism in the collection funds across the National Museum. The items are systematized, their general characteristics are given, and selected ones are subsequently described and placed in a historical context. The study deals with collection items that fall into the long period between the Austrian Reichstag convocation and the dissolution of Czechoslovakia (1848-1992) and are primarily related to selected areas: parliamentary seats, activities in parliament, politicians from the parliamentary chambers as well as political parties, and the role of citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A list of 139 specimens of bats belonging to 32 species of eight families originating from Zambia, housed in the collection of the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, is presented in a systematical review. The species lists are complemented by comments on distribution and morphometry data. The specimens represent 73 new records (species vs. locality) of bats from Zambia. The collection contains two species new for the Zambian fauna, Afropipistrellus grandidieri and Neoromicia somalica, and the bat fauna of Zambia now comprises 76 species in total. Two species, Rhinolophus sakejiensis and Chaerephon bivittatus are documented from Zambia for the second time, the former bat for the first time since the species description. The record localities of Epomophorus labiatus, Rhinolophus mossambicus, and Neoromicia somalica shift margins of the hitherto known distribution ranges of these bats. In Epomophorus dobsonii, Nyctinomus aegyptiacus, Glauconycteris variegata, Pipistrellus rusticus, Scotophilus leucogaster, and S. viridis, the collection specimens represent new peripheral records making their distribution range margins more precise. Molecular genetic analysis revealed new extents of distribution for particular mitochondrial lineages of otherwise common species in Zambia, Hipposideros caffer, Nycteris thebaica, and Miniopterus natalensis s.str. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Václav Frič (1839-1916) came from a large extended Prague family, which included many other important personalities active in various fields of human endeavor. In 1861, Václav Frič founded a store with natural products and teaching aids, which was initially located in Vodičková street in Prague, and from 1877 in Vladislavova street. The company supplied zoological specimens, minerals, rocks and aids for naturalists to schools, collectors, museums and universities, mainly in Europe, but also throughout the world. The range of products was extensive, the company prospered well for a long time and became world famous. Its exhibits have received awards several times at world exhibitions. After the death of Václav Frič, his son Jaromír Frič took over the company. In 1959, he terminated its activities, and the natural products stored in the company building were taken over by the National Museum in Prague. In the mineralogical collection of the National Museum there are almost 2,800 items of minerals originating from the company V. Frič. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Researchers have the personal resources of two key genealogists and heraldists of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Antonín Šlechta and Čeněk Pinsker, available in the Archives of the National Museum. These two researchers were on opposing sides during the so-called re-ennoblement trials, a matter related to the forgery of documents proving relations with ancient Czech noble families. Their personal resources, stored in the Archives of the National Museum, provide an interesting illustration of not only their private lives, but also their genealogical and heraldic interests, and their work methods, and potentially also map their involvement in the aforementioned judicial processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Classical Antiquity Collection in the National Museum was recently enriched by the donation of an assemblage of pottery sherds. Following a careful and systematic procedure, it became possible to reconstruct almost an entire vessel. Subsequent analysis revealed that we were dealing with an early South Italian red -figure bell -krater. Its style of painting dates the vase to the early 4th century BC, making it close to the workshop of the Sisyphus Painter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text is focused on the issue of contemporary museum work with respect to the formation of part of the collection, its takeover and preparation, specifically the Collection of Brochures of the Collection of the Museum of the Workers’ Movement included in the National Museum. It captures the circumstances of the creation of the Collection, the methodology of its preparation and, finally, the research opportunities that the Collection itself offers.

The article analyses the treatment of religion and nonreligion in two current permanent exhibitions at the Estonian National Museum in the light of a Estonian national narrative which is critical of religion/Christianity. National narratives are concurrently a process and an outcome and therefore it is important to study how that narrative changes over time, as it reflects changes in society. The article also studies how culture and religion are represented in the aforementioned exhibitions and how they support the recently emerging phenomenon of separating religion from culture.

Este artigo analisa a reconfiguração de acervos arquivísticos sinistrados por meio de representantes digitais do acervo original perdido, considerando o caso da Seção de Memória e Arquivo do Museu Nacional (SEMEAR), que sofreu incêndio em setembro de 2018. Desta forma, a SEMEAR perdeu-se praticamente todo o acervo. No intuito de reconstruí-lo, emergiu a ideia de reconfigurá-lo a partir de seus representantes digitais. Diante disso, surgiu o problema desta pesquisa: É possível reconfigurar acervos sinistrados a partir de representantes digitais, sob o ponto de vista da teoria arquivística clássica? Quais são as implicações teóricas e práticas? Do ponto de vista metodológico, buscou-se na literatura nacional e internacional os princípios basilares da Arquivologia. Nesse sentido, contextualiza-se os princípios da Ordem Original e da Proveniência, identificando suas características e prerrogativas. Esta pesquisa adota uma posição conceitual sobre o uso dos representantes digitais caracterizando-os como documentos de arquivo, o que possibilitará, dessa forma, a reconfiguração do acervo. Este artículo analiza la reconfiguración de los archivos afectados por los representantes digitales de la colección original perdida, teniendo en cuenta el caso de la Sección de Memoria y Archivo del Museo Nacional (SEMEAR), que sufrió un incendio en septiembre de 2018. De esta manera, SEMEAR ha perdido prácticamente todo el acervo. Con el fin de reconstruirlo, la idea de reconfigurarlo surgió de sus representantes digitales. En vista de esto, surgió el problema de esta investigación: ¿Es posible reconfigurar colecciones siniestras de representantes digitales, desde el punto de vista de la teoría archivística clásica? ¿Cuáles son las implicaciones teóricas y prácticas? Desde el punto de vista metodológico, se buscaron los principios básicos de la archivología en la literatura nacional e internacional. En este sentido, se contextualizan los principios del orden y la procedencia originales, identificando sus características y prerrogativas. Esta investigación adopta una posición conceptual sobre el uso de representantes digitales que los caracterizan como documentos de archivo, lo que permitirá la reconfiguración de la colección. This article analyzes the reconfiguration of archives affected by digital representatives of the original collection lost, considering the case of the Memory and Archive Section of the National Museum (SEMEAR), which suffered fire in September 2018. In this way, SEMEAR has lost virtually the entire acquis. In order to rebuild it, the idea of reconfiguring it emerged from its digital representatives. In view of this, the problem of this research arose: Is it possible to reconfigure sinister collections from digital representatives, from the point of view of classical archival theory? What are the theoretical and practical implications? From the methodological point of view, the basic principles of Archiveology were sought in national and international literature. In this sense, the principles of the Original Order and Provenance are contextualized, identifying its characteristics and prerogatives. This research adopts a conceptual position on the use of digital representatives characterizing them as archiving documents, which will thus allow the reconfiguration of the collection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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One of the oldest and most important departments of the National Museum was the Department of Historical Archaeology. It had its representative exhibition in the building on Wenceslas Square since 1894, but it gradually became obsolete and was finally closed down during the Second World War. However, the new exposition of history after the war was a long time coming and its creation was complicated. Two attempts to create it are reflected in the text. In the first case, it was to be part of the planned memorial to the history of the Czech nation at Prague Castle (with the participation of the National Gallery and the collections of Prague Castle) and was to be placed in St. George Monastery. In the end, however, the overly generous project was not realised. In the second case, the building of the Lobkowicz Palace was assigned to the National Museum and it was only here that a new exhibition of history from the Middle Ages to 1848 was created in 1973-1987. The present text reflects some interesting circumstances of the creation of this exposition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Musée National de Burkina Faso - MNB (National Museum of Burkina Faso) was one of the first museums founded in West Africa in the wake of regional independence movements. Having long borne the consequences of geographical and institutional nomadism, the museum is now built on an area of 29 hectares in the heart of Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou. Although today its storage rooms seem to meet standards for the conservation of collections, further efforts need to be made. This case study develops a historical approach to understanding the evolution of the National Museum and its collections, particularly through the lens of storage management. It leads to new perspectives around the museum, particularly with regard to the inclusion of Living Human Treasures to its programmes. In addition, in a national context marked by multiple terrorist attacks that have led to the destruction of heritage, the role of the National Museum in the conservation of movable heritage from other museums deserves to be questioned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the educational significance of the national museum as a reminder of the nature of home and its relation to nostalgia. I contextualise the sense of home in various ways. First, the national museum materialises the nostalgic claim of 'our' history, the collective memory and identity, which is in some way or other mixed up with the personal memory. Second, it problematises the relation to home. Barbara Cassin's question, 'when are we ever at home?', subtitle to her book Nostalgia (2016), expresses a puzzle that may be apparent both to those who have never left home and to those who have to leave their home for personal, social, or political reasons. In the light of Cassin's book, the national museum comes to be seen in a contradictory way: it provides the ground and materialisation for the collective identity of a people, and it leaves open to something more disturbing. Yet this disturbance, if welcomed and embraced, is crucial to realising the educative importance of the museum in its contribution to the understanding of the human condition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text discusses the history of the Ethnographic Department during the 1938–1948 period, i.e., chiefly during the Second World War and the Third Czechoslovak Republic. There was the significant shift in the ideological concept of the National Museum, as the institution progressed from the ideology of Czechoslovakism to defence of the Czech nation, and it was also necessary to deal with the pervading Nazi ideology and its specific manifestations (e.g., Germanization and Aryanization). On a practical level, the department primarily had to cope with a lack of space, as well as the gradual loss of and the fluctuations in staff. The fate of Drahomíra Stránská, who was a key figure in the museum’s ethnography, is also discussed. On a conceptual level, the department did not advance much and remained at the level of descriptive or comparative ethnography with an emphasis on other Slavic nations and the domestic environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a selection of yet unpublished ‘Gnathia Pottery’ from the collection of the National Museum in Prague. The assemblage is confronted with other similar vases finds, and, if possible, attributed to groups or painters of Gnathia vases.

This study looks at the history of museums as a specific historiographical field. It first gives an overview of the various types of publication outputs one can find in this field. These include collection guides, magazine and proceedings studies, and monographs. Studies and proceedings in particular are shown to be practical solutions to the very complex mapping of museum history. Monographs can be of various types – publications about museum buildings are often highly visually impressive, while another type of monographs looks at museum collections, and yet another can be considered the pinnacle of museum historiography, as such monographs provide a comprehensive understanding of museums as organisational and administrative units. Papers already published are an important source for a study of museums, while in contrast there are relatively few texts based on primary archived sources. A detailed investigation of previous publications demonstrates that museum history is focused on and researched always upon the occasion of major jubilees of these institutions, and that this is practically solely the domain of museum employees.

This study focuses on the beginnings of the institutionalization of Czech (Czechoslovak) museology, which academic publications typically situate in the 1960s. It deals primarily with the emergence of two subjects that differ from one another in a variety of ways: Brno External Department of Museology and Prague Centre for Education in Museology in the Charles University Faculty of Arts at the National Museum. The research objective of this study is to analyze the main developmental trends that both of these internationally known institutions underwent in the period following 1968. The author focuses on the strategies and motivations of their main representatives at the time, as well as compulsory changes to the overall status, personnel, organization, concept and curriculum, which are compared to some degree with the situation before the August invasion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A list of 1,673 specimens of bats belonging to 36 species, seven genera, and five families of the superfamily Rhinolophoidea, housed in the collection of the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, is presented in a systematic review. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In addition to a historical overview of development of stećak tombstones, this paper also includes their overview in a catalog form, containing individual descriptions with photographs. Stećak tombstones located in the National Museum were declared a movable property by the Decision of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, adopted at its 30th session, held on June 26, 2019, entitled: Collection of Ancient and Medieval Stone Monuments at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Forms of knowledge production adopted by academics in a given national space do not emerge without the right circumstances. Student circulation has a bearing on knowledge import processes. Opening with an overview of the field of Argentinian anthropology in the 1970s and 1980s, this article looks at some of the consequences of the international circulation of Argentinian students through the Social Anthropology Master’s and PhD Programs at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGAS-MN/UFRJ) from the late 1980s to the present. Based on documents in the PPGAS-MN archives, interviews with lecturers and former students and a review of PPGAS-MN and Argentinian university syllabi, this article: (i) provides a historical description of the agreement between institutions that has facilitated this flow; (ii) describes how this circulation has given these students a new perspective on the ethnographic approach and on classical anthropology; and (iii) describes how, from a student viewpoint, this shift has altered their way of thinking about social anthropology research and given them a new habitus. The results hint at a new approach to classical anthropology and the use of ethnographic data. There were three main drivers: (i) PPGAS-MN lecturers’ emphasis on the relevance of empirical data and the primacy of theory prevailing in Argentina; (ii) the renewed deep reading of classic ethnographical texts; and (iii) the development of a new habitus as a result of socialisation in the ensuing social space.

This article is about a review of the research project in progress, on the occasion of the Prerogative Qualification Examination of the Graduate Program in Information Science at the Federal University of Alagoas (PPGCI / UFAL), in August 2020. The article brings a clipping of the project presenting, from the management of Ladislau Netto from Alagoas (1870-1894) at the National Museum. Therefore, this study seeks to dialogue with Information Science, Cultural History and Museology, in order to place the botanist Ladislau Netto, at the center of his contributions to the institutional organization, as a result of administrative reforms arising from the regulations of 1876, 1888 and 1892. Culminating in the creation of the scientific magazine, Archives, in the implementation of public teaching contests and courses, within the scope of the National Museum, as well as in the sponsorship of scientific expeditions in Brazil, with repercussions in the Brazilian Anthropological Exhibition of 1882 and in the Universal and International Exhibition from Paris in 1889. Therefore, this research treats the National Museum as an institution focused on the production of information and knowledge, by establishing innovative processes, during the last quarter of the Second Brazilian Empire. What it configured in subsidies to the country's scientific-technological, political, social and cultural development. Finally, it seeks to establish a connection between the National Museum and the State of Alagoas, as the place of origin of Ladislau Netto, both bearers of information about this trajectory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article analyzes the formation and development of Kyiv museums during the imperial period, as well as the transformations, that took place in this field during the revolutionary period (1917 - 1919). The article deals with the history of museums through the prism of analyzing the contribution of central and local authorities to the development and further activities of museum institutions. The influence of the state authorities and the Ukrainian national movement on the development of museums is considered in the example of the largest Kyiv museums. Museums have played an essential role in the formation of collective memory, memory policy, the nation-building processes et cetera. During the study period in European countries, national museums were opened. As P. Aronsson and G. Elgenius mentioned, «The national museum is thus a knowledge-based socio-political institution, with corresponding collections and displays that ultimately claim, articulate and represent dominant national values and myths». This article examines the potential of Kyiv museum institutions to become Ukrainian national museums. Kyiv during the imperial period was an important centre of Russian culture and power. For imperial authorities, Kyiv was the administrative centre of the Southwestern region, the city from which Christianity spread, the centre of Russification of Ukrainian territory et cetera. At the same time, Kyiv was the centre of the Ukrainian movement in the Russian Empire. The Ukrainian activists could perceive this city in a completely different way – as a historic capital. For the Ukrainian intelligentsia of the Russian Empire, museum institutions had great potential in the study of the history and culture of Ukrainian lands. The first museums in Kyiv were opened at St. Volodymyr University in the 1830s. The most significant museums in the city were the Church-Archeological Museum at the Kyiv Theological Academy and the Kyiv City (Art, Industrial and Scientific) Museum There was no purposeful state museum policy in the Russian Empire. At the same time, the imperial and local authorities had an influence on the creation of museum institutions and their further development (mostly through funding). From the point of view of imperial power, which acted in a particular paradigm of non-recognition of Ukrainians as a separate people, Kyiv museums were supposed to be “Russian”, followed by, or should be followed by, authorities of all levels. However, supporters of the Ukrainian national movement, occupying official positions, used the museums for their purposes, finding opportunities to involve local authorities and patrons. The city's museums operated under different signage, but they had the potential to become Ukrainian national museums, most of all the Kyiv City Museum. This museum has evolved accordingly, thanks to scholars associated with it. In 1917 - 1919 the situation in the city changed. Ukrainian state entities - the UNR and the Ukrainian state, of course, had completely different views on the development of the Ukrainian nation and sought to implement the "Ukrainian project" by creating their state. History and culture were now an essential lever of legitimizing the new government, which, thanks to the influence of the Ukrainian intelligentsia, understood the possibilities of the museum industry. The Ukrainian National Museum had a crucial role in this process. There was no doubt that it should be based in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.

The objective of this paper is to analyse the transformations in the field of museums in Poland, and to study more closely the process of constructing a museum model that meets contemporary challenges. Two types of museums are analysed here, namely national museums and museums of modern art, to demonstrate how their respective activities affect the structure of the field in question, bringing about change. It is the assumption of this study, following Pierre Bourdieu’s framework of conflict perspective, that museums situated in the field of orthodoxy and the ones in the field of heterodoxy compete within the artistic field for a symbolic domination over other participants. At the core interest of this study, there is a question to what extent chosen Polish museums and staff apply the principles of the New Museology in their daily practice.

The paper is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Shigabuddin Marjani, a well-known Tatar enlightener, religious scholar, historian, ethnographer, arhegrapher, orientalist scholar, and educator. The article examines Sh. Marjani and his family’s memorabilia that have been carefully preserved to the present by his descendants. The collection of Sh. Marjani’s personal things is being stored in the Republic of Tatarstan National Museum.

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