02087nas a2200193   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653004500043653003700088653002700125653005600152653003000208100001400238245013200252856011800384300001200502520135900514022002001873                                       d10aDevelopment of ethnography and museology10aEthnographic material in museums10aEthnographic museology10aHistory of museological thinking in the Czech lands10aMuseum collection objects1 aO. Kirsch00aMajor Trends in the Conception of Ethnographic Museum Materials in the Works of Czech Ethnologists and Museologists before 1989  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85122145859&partnerID=40&md5=bd6848f6cd807b56507dd64e9d312dc1  a188-2033 aEthnographic material, as a research topic, appeared in Czech museums as early as at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, as a direct result of the Czechoslavic Ethnographic Exhibition (Prague 1895). However, it was more intensively reflected only after 1918, especially in connection with the support to regional research into folk culture (e.g. D. Stránská, A. Václavík) and with the promotion of general museological principles (L. Lábek, J. F. Svoboda). The phenomenon was, however, grasped in a more comprehensive way only with the onset of Communist rule. The specific environment of that time created suitable conditions for unique concepts which sought to closely interconnect theory and practice and which were thematically focussed on collection-creating, presentation and educational activities of museums. The research interest was divided into two main lines. The first one featured efforts to analyse authentic movable material (L. Kunz, H. Johnová, R. Suk); the second stream worked with a broader concept of the ethnographic collection object in which it included building and natural elements, while it strongly emphasised intangible cultural heritage (J. Langer, J. Štika). The work of Josef Beneš, who attempted to create a coherent system, called ethnographic museology, based on existing knowledge had a special position.  a08628351 (ISSN)