Open AccessTHE SIBERIAN COLLECTION OF THE ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM IN CRACOW IN THE LIGHT OF FIELDWORK AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL REINTERPRETATIONS
Author(s) -
Magdalena Zych
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
muzealnictwo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2391-4815
pISSN - 0464-1086
DOI - 10.5604/01.3001.0014.3470
Subject(s) - museology , reinterpretation , ethnography , cult , anthropology , presentation (obstetrics) , history , national museum , archaeology , visual arts , library science , geography , sociology , art , ancient history , aesthetics , computer science , medicine , radiology
The paper presents the results of the academicmuseum Project called Anthropological reinterpretationof the Siberian collections from the EthnographicMuseum in Cracow that came from Polish 19th-century explorersof Siberia financed by the National Programme forthe Development of Humanities (2016–2019). Four majortopics of investigation among the collections’ source communitieshave been presented: Benedykt Dybowski’s collectionfrom Kamchatka, Konstanty Podhorski’s collection fromChukotka, Nenets’ clothing donated by Izydor Sobański, andtwo cult figurines which reached the Cracow Museum from JanŻurakowski. The presentation reveals the assumptions of thein-field museology: the method combining the anthropologicalperspective with museology elements. Furthermore, thedigital repository www.etnomuzeum.eu/syberia is discussed;it is the one that makes the collections and research resultsavailable online. The paper may prove of interest to professionalscurating collections, culture researchers, historians, culturalanthropologists, art historian, conservation services, museologytheoreticians.