The Mundaneum as a Semiotic Condenser: Challenges of Interpreting Cultural Heritage in the Context of its Hybridisation

The Mundaneum as a Semiotic Condenser: Challenges of Interpreting Cultural Heritage in the Context of its Hybridisation

The article discusses certain heritage interpretation challenges posed by both the hybridisation of heritage institutions (the blurred boundaries between libraries/museums/ archives) and the visitor’s increasingly mediatised experience of heritage. The Mundaneum – a Belgian archival, museum and exhi...

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Main Author: Natalija Majsova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Ljubljana 2020-12-01
Series:Družboslovne Razprave
Subjects:
heritage interpretation
memory studies
semiotic condenser
mun- daneum
optical lantern
Online Access:https://www.druzboslovne-razprave.org/pdf/stevilke/DR94-95-Majsova-WEB.pdf
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The Mundaneum as a Semiotic Condenser: Challenges of Interpreting Cultural Heritage in the Context of its Hybridisation
Družboslovne Razprave
heritage interpretation
memory studies
semiotic condenser
mun- daneum
optical lantern
author_facet Natalija Majsova
author_sort Natalija Majsova
title The Mundaneum as a Semiotic Condenser: Challenges of Interpreting Cultural Heritage in the Context of its Hybridisation
title_short The Mundaneum as a Semiotic Condenser: Challenges of Interpreting Cultural Heritage in the Context of its Hybridisation
title_full The Mundaneum as a Semiotic Condenser: Challenges of Interpreting Cultural Heritage in the Context of its Hybridisation
title_fullStr The Mundaneum as a Semiotic Condenser: Challenges of Interpreting Cultural Heritage in the Context of its Hybridisation
title_full_unstemmed The Mundaneum as a Semiotic Condenser: Challenges of Interpreting Cultural Heritage in the Context of its Hybridisation
title_sort mundaneum as a semiotic condenser: challenges of interpreting cultural heritage in the context of its hybridisation
publisher University of Ljubljana
series Družboslovne Razprave
issn 0352-3608
1581-968X
publishDate 2020-12-01
description The article discusses certain heritage interpretation challenges posed by both the hybridisation of heritage institutions (the blurred boundaries between libraries/museums/ archives) and the visitor’s increasingly mediatised experience of heritage. The Mundaneum – a Belgian archival, museum and exhibition centre – is used as a case study. It is analysed as a semiotic condenser – a heritage object that actively reinforces and develops its symbolic status as a ‘paper Google’, thereby emphasising its significance for the past, present and future. I offer narratological analysis of the genesis of this symbolism in scientific discussions and focus on heritage interpretation in the context of the Mundaneum’s archive of 30,000 optical lantern glass slides in order to highlight the challenges such symbolic and conceptual approaches to heritage bring to its responsible interpretation.
topic heritage interpretation
memory studies
semiotic condenser
mun- daneum
optical lantern
url https://www.druzboslovne-razprave.org/pdf/stevilke/DR94-95-Majsova-WEB.pdf
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