Community wisdom vs. the professional conservators’ approach : the Rynek Underground Museum in Kraków as an example of a distinguished, modern idea of presenting cultural heritage in the historical centres of cities

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Title: Community wisdom vs. the professional conservators’ approach : the Rynek Underground Museum in Kraków as an example of a distinguished, modern idea of presenting cultural heritage in the historical centres of cities
Author: Sroczyńska, Jolanta
Release date: 2014
Place of publication: Kraków
Publisher: Wydawnictwo PK
Published in: Tradition and heritage in the contemporary image of the city : monograph. Vol. 3, Practise and process / edited by Tomasz Jeleński, Stanisław Juchnowicz, Ewelina Woźniak-Szpakiewicz
Pages: 181-190
Language: English
ISBN: 978-83-7242-798-4
Comments: 30th Anniversary of the International Centre of Education
Keywords: presentation, cultural heritage, museum, crowd sourcing
Abstract: Most monuments conservators claim to show society how to interpret a particular heritage, such as what should be in their collective memory (worth preservation) and how the specific heritage should be presented. The lack of social obedience is explained by insufficient social education. The intensification of this knowledge obviously takes into account education in the spirit of “sustainable development”. However, it is assumed in advance that heritage is of utmost importance here and everything else should be subordinated to it, adjusted to this “the only right idea” which has been elaborated for years. If, nevertheless, any restoration project breaks out from the imposed hierarchy and its effects become worthy or more popular, it is very often accused of “lacking sensitivity, having a superficial perception, or representing ‘Disneylandisation’, or even a cheap showiness”. The author intends to present reasons why the Underground Market Museum in Krakow should or should not be created.
PKT classification: 640000 Architektura
Department: Faculty of Architecture
License: Licencja PK. Brak możliwości edycji i druku.
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