TY - JOUR
KW - House museum
KW - intangible heritage
KW - Literary heritage
KW - Museography
AU - Marina Strepetova
AU - Jordi Arcos-Pumarola
AB - Literary heritage presents a dialectic relationship between tangible and intangible elements. This complex duality presents challenges for curators, who must try to communicate this immaterial essence through the exhibition language. This article, structured on a two-phase research process, aims to identify the main challenges for literary heritage valorisation and communication in the museum context. First, interviews with specialists in literary heritage and museology from Catalonia and Russia were carried out to identify the main issues to be considered when designing a literary heritage exhibition and managing a literary heritage centre. Second, the websites of three renowned literary European museums were analysed to inspect whether and how these aspects are tackled by these museums and presented to their potential visitors. Results show that, firstly, the duality of literary heritage is vital in the designing of the exhibition; and secondly, that concepts such as human mediation, literary tourism, and promotion are important in finding new strategies to communicate and visibilise literary heritage intangible meanings.
DO - 10.46284/mkd.2020.8.3.5
M1 - 3
N1 - Publisher: Comenius University in Bratislava
N2 - Literary heritage presents a dialectic relationship between tangible and intangible elements. This complex duality presents challenges for curators, who must try to communicate this immaterial essence through the exhibition language. This article, structured on a two-phase research process, aims to identify the main challenges for literary heritage valorisation and communication in the museum context. First, interviews with specialists in literary heritage and museology from Catalonia and Russia were carried out to identify the main issues to be considered when designing a literary heritage exhibition and managing a literary heritage centre. Second, the websites of three renowned literary European museums were analysed to inspect whether and how these aspects are tackled by these museums and presented to their potential visitors. Results show that, firstly, the duality of literary heritage is vital in the designing of the exhibition; and secondly, that concepts such as human mediation, literary tourism, and promotion are important in finding new strategies to communicate and visibilise literary heritage intangible meanings.
SP - 95
EP - 109
TI - Literary heritage in museum exhibitions: Identifying its main challenges in the European context
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85092526547&doi=10.46284%2fmkd.2020.8.3.5&partnerID=40&md5=a1c39630b482b808b32d5b97b5e47c4a
VL - 8
SN - 13392204 (ISSN)
ER -