Open AccessTRADITIONAL WOODWORKING TOOLS. A HISTORIAN’S COLLECTION
Author(s) -
Marek Wrede
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
muzealnictwo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2391-4815
pISSN - 0464-1086
DOI - 10.5604/01.3001.0014.8755
Subject(s) - woodworking , german , hierarchy , consumption (sociology) , position (finance) , presentation (obstetrics) , data collection , visual arts , engineering , geography , business , art , political science , sociology , social science , archaeology , aesthetics , law , medicine , finance , radiology
The paper focuses on a private collection ofwoodworking tools created in Warsaw in 1982–2020,covering over 400 items, mainly Polish, but also German,Austrian, English, French, and American. It presents thegenesis of the collection, methods of its development,internal structure, and the collection study modes.The presentation is accompanied by comments dealingwith the importance of a collection of tools, or more broadlyof items not widely considered to be socially prestigious,seen against the phenomenon of collecting perceived asan element of ‘luxury consumption for show’, as well as bythe first attempts at comparing collecting realities and theposition of woodworking tools in the hierarchy of museumobjects in Poland and European countries.