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• Autore/i
  Wangefelt Ström, H.
• Titolo pubblicazione
  Wangefelt Ström, H. (2019). How do Museums Affect Sacredness?: Three Suggested Models. In: International Symposium of ICOFOM, Tehran, IRAN. Museology and the Sacred, 15-19 October 2018, Paris. 191-208.
• Casa editrice
  ICOFOM
• Luogo pubblicazione
  Paris
• Titolo collana di libri o del giornale
  ICOFOM Study Series
• Numero di serie del libro o giornale
  47 (1-2)
• Da pagina
  191
• A pagina
  205
• Abstract
  This paper discusses what happens when religion in the shape of objects imbued with religious meaning is transformed into cultural heritage, suggesting three models to discuss its consequences for museums. The first model builds on the museum as a killing of previous identities, and the objects as provided with new identities as museum objects. A second model is the hybrid identity, where a museum object can possess several identities simultaneously, depending on the eyes of the beholder: sacredness, art object, or evidence of history. The third model is defined by the uses of objects. Distinguishing between cultual use and cultural use is crucial here. I argue that these different approaches to sacred objects in museum pose different museological challenges and possibilities, and also ascribes different agencies to museum staff as well as to the visitors.
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