Open AccessSEARCH FOR UNIVERSALISM IN A REGIONAL NARRATIVE. THE CASE OF THE NEW PERMANENT HISTORICAL EXHIBITION IN THE SILESIAN MUSEUM1 IN KATOWICE
Author(s) -
Leszek Janusz Jodliński
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
studia humanistyczne/studia humanistyczne agh
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2084-3364
pISSN - 1732-2189
DOI - 10.7494/human.2020.19.4.49
Subject(s) - exhibition , multinational corporation , narrative , interpretation (philosophy) , mythology , modernity , perspective (graphical) , history , industrialisation , political science , sociology , visual arts , art history , law , art , classics , literature , programming language , computer science
In 2012 politicians and some historians blocked the first (after 1989) permanent exhibition of the history of Upper Silesia. Its history turned out to be much more controversial and went beyond the framework of storytelling in a museum. Guidelines of the exhibition scenario have been consulted from 2010 with specialists and in the course of focus surveys. Result of the research and experts’ opinions defined modern history (19th and 20th c.) as key period for understanding the heritage of the region. The authors of the project wanted to replace national and regional myths by new categories of two leading universal interpretation such as modernity and industrialization The authors wanted to show the history of Silesia from the perspective of Poland, Germany and Czechia for their cultural presence etc. was significant in its history. The project was rejected and the script resigned from a multinational and European perspective.