To what extent do art museums in Australia mirror global changes in the museum world at the beginning of the twenty-first century? What museum features are particular to Australia? What challenges do Australian museums face today? What is their relationship with history, identity, and politics? Why and how are they growing and expanding? These and many more topical issues relating to museums in Australia are discussed in this book. Museum directors, curators, collectors and researchers from around Australia talk about their institutions and shed light on the diverse and vibrant ecology of museums across this vast country, both historically and today. The book discusses the nature of contemporary museums of art, their common and specific features, and their contexts, relations, challenges, and plans.
Publikacja gromadzi ponad 40 artykułów rozpatrujących dziedzictwo kulturowe w
Europie Środkowej w rozmaitych jego aspektach w ciągu 25 lat transformacji
ustrojowej. Druga dekada XXI wieku skłania nie tylko do spojrzenia na system
ochrony dziedzictwa, lecz również na znaczenie i filozofię dziedzictwa. Co
podlega ochronie? Jak kształtować relację między teraźniejszością a
przeszłością? Gdzie kończy się dziedzictwo i kiedy współczesność staje się
dziedzictwem? Jakie są granice dziedzictwa? Międzynarodowe grono autorów –
naukowców i ekspertów w zakresie dziedzictwa – rozważa dziedzictwo kulturowe w
Europie Środkowej w różnorodnych jego przejawach i na różnych przykładach. Tom
jest owocem 2. Forum Dziedzictwa Europy Środkowej, zorganizowanego przez
Międzynarodowe Centrum Kultury w 2013 roku. The Limits of Heritage The second
decade of the 21st century is a time for thinking not only about the system of
heritage protection itself but also on its significance and philosophy: What
is to be protected? How should relations between the present and the past be
built? In the context of international and local lists of properties, sites,
and forms of cultural heritage, where does this heritage end and when does the
present become heritage? The theme of “the limits of heritage” draws our
attention to the indefinable and complex relationship between the past and the
future. And rightly so, because what cultural heritage in fact means is using
the past in order to achieve a contemporary aim. The growing importance of
cultural heritage also stems from that belief. The focal point of
deliberations held in the volume is Central Europe, whose experience and
cultural dilemmas are both unique and universal. Consequently, they illustrate
perfectly the on-going contemporary debate carried out not only in Europe but
also all over the world. In this debate, our voice must be present and heard!
The volume contains over 40 articles from both Central Europe and outside the
region. The strong interest in the idea behind the Forum among scholars from
all over the world and the range of perspectives (also in geographic terms)
represented by the authors of the texts is the best confirmation that the
Central European Heritage Forum is an important platform for dialogue and a
response to the need for enhanced studies into the region’s heritage.
