Contemporary Intercultural Educational Programs for Ethnographic and Historical Museum

This article presents the main dimensions of the intercultural educational environment, systematized in the framework of research on contemporary intercultural educational programs for ethnographic and historical museums. In this context, the results of a study of the opinion of teachers on the need and importance of the implementation of intercultural educational programs for ethnographic and historical museums have been interpreted.

Review on the Display Design of Historical Museums

Historical museum is very important for patriotic education and social development. In order to improve the quality of the people, realize their thoughts and the development of the future of society, museums and memorial halls with historical themes are playing their role. When they visit, people can feel the patriotic and revolutionary spirit in the long history and gain strength. The exhibition design of the museum will add icing on the cake, explore innovative design, get rid of the old tradition, make people have a stronger sense of substitution, and give full play to the spirit of learning. Our group tried to combine the modern style with the traditional historical memorial hall, so that the memorial hall can play its role of patriotism education, promote social development, improve the quality and ideological consciousness of the people, so that people can feel the patriotism and revolutionary spirit in the long history when browsing and visiting.

RANCANGAN PENGELOLAAN SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING ENGAGEMENT

This research intends to designed the engagement management of facebook and instagram of Management Unit of Jakarta Historical Museums formed by 3 major elements in managing social media interactions namely creator-related features, contextual features, and content features. This study used kualitatif method with descriptive approach by conducting interviews with companies and visitors, also observation on their social media. Which the results be analyzed using the Miles and Huberman analysis model and tested the validity of the data using source triangulation technique. The results of this research show that Management Unit of Jakarta Historical Museums has operator division in managing their social media consisting of coordinator and three admins, but there is no classification of admin’s job description in managing their social media. From both social media, the interaction that exists on facebook and instagram is still not optimal can be seen from the average number of likes and comment that has not shown a significant number. Interesting content for visitors is informative, provide detailed information, the right composition and layout, and use filters that are not excessive.

Captioning the occupation: The role of textual elements in the process of building national narratives in historical museums

Background: After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, in the ideology vacuum it left behind, the question of national identity became one of great importance. Adopting the Benedict Anderson constructivist idea that nations are imagined – or socially constructed communities that have to be continuously reproduced in order to exist, we aim to analyse whether and in what ways historical and archaeological museums can serve as tools in the process of building or reshaping national identity in the post-Soviet landscape in order to achieve the state ambitions of the nation. Museums are a powerful tool for policymakers; they not only present neutral objects but also usually enter into dialogue with visitors and create a certain vision of history. The stories told in museums can incorporate selected episodes into a national narrative. Aim, Method, and Discussion: The author aims to verify whether there is a disconnection between two or three parallel texts, between the texts and the visual image, and finally between the texts in question and the master narrative, as imposed by the policymakers. The materials for the analysis are captions, labels, audio guides, and texts from the websites, from the Museum of Soviet Occupation, Tbilisi, Georgia; the Museum of Occupation and Fights for Freedom in Vilnius, Lithuania; and the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide in Kiev, Ukraine. The research demonstrated that the analysed texts in the museums in question are a key element of building the museums’ narratives. In addition, the choice of language version is a significant factor that strengthens the museum’s discourse. Captions and labels are an integral part of the narrative styles. Conclusion: The caption is a key element in relation to what a spectator thinks they are seeing: if the contextualising text is changed, the meaning of the artefacts and of the exhibits changes to a large degree.

Educational and Cultural Policies in the Period from 2012 to 2020 Regarding the Implementation of Intercultural Educational Programs for Ethnographic and Historical Museum

Museum education, which creates conditions for people to better understand their own culture and other cultures and to form skills for effective intercultural interaction, is based on the recognition and acceptance of differences and the development of empathy, tolerance and respect, while helping to preserve cultural values. This determines the role of museum education in the ethnographic and historical museum as a tool for successful implementation of intercultural dialogue. This article presents the main aspects of a functional analysis of educational and cultural policies in the period from 2012 to 2020. In addition, in the context of the key global and European visions for education and culture and their reflection in national policies until 2030, the introduction of modern intercultural educational programs for ethnographic and historical museum in strategic terms is justified. The research was carried out as part of research on contemporary intercultural educational programs for ethnographic and historical museums.

The Role of the Museum Space Narrative in Constructing Historical Memory

The paper concerns the issue of representation of historical memory. The museum is analyzed as the particular site of emergement of such a representation. The circulation of specific narratives belonging to a museum is viewed as the research object that is able to provide insights into the construction of historical memory. Therefore, the purpose of the undertaken study is to identify the role of the museum narrative in the formation of memory. This article focuses on the ways of exposing and assessing the effect that museum exhibitions and the concepts and the meaning they translate to the audience have on memory creation. The approach of the interdisciplinary scholar field of memory studies provides a framework for such an analysis. In particular, since the spatial dimension of memory is concerned, the contributions of Hayden White and of the theory of realms of memory of Pierre Nora are crucial. The text deconstructs the memory formation processes taking place in the space of museums using these theoretical and methodological ideas. The paper meets methodological challenges and research questions with conducting a case study. The exhibition of the Museum of the Mologa District that is a part of the Rybinsk State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum Preserve at the Russian Yaroslavl Region serve as the source of oral, textual and visual narratives. This museum offers a view on local history that is in a way unusual for Russian museums — it provides a less formal perspective, and, in addition, the museum was founded by an initiative group of the displaced people from the submerged town of Mologa. The museum displays are dedicated to this town that disappeared because of the construction of the Rybinsk hydroelectric power plant. With limited material evidence to illustrate the Mologa life, this role is passed to oral histories and memory narratives. Thus, based on the historical memory literature, the paper considers that the museum described could be characterized as a memory museum, different from traditional historical museums because of emotional links in the presentation of past events. The author concludes that the image of the flooded city presented in the museum is directly related to the traumatic nature of the social memory of the settlers. Thus, the meanings and the significance of the museum overflow to the realms of memory.

Race, Architecture, and Belonging: Divergent Perceptions of Antebellum Architecture

Preserving historic buildings can have many purposes, including honoring proud moments in our history as well as acknowledging and redressing shameful ones. The preservation of Antebellum buildings, buildings with an architectural style from the pre-Civil War era that often features symmetrical brick or white-washed façades and columns in a Greek revival style, has been as especially fraught issue. In the present work, we contribute to this conversation by examining the psychological costs of preserving Antebellum buildings such as restored or preserved Plantations. In two studies (Ns=166 and 165, respectively), Black participants rated Antebellum but not New American architecture more negatively than White participants. They reported liking Antebellum architecture less and feeling less welcome in it. Further, Black (but not White) participants spontaneously mentioned racism/slavery when viewing Antebellum architecture. Interestingly, this pattern was also found for modern-built Antebellum architecture. This suggests it is not Antebellum buildings per se but Antebellum architecture and the ideologies it evokes that may be problematic. Next, we examined potential moderators of this effect. In Study 3, Black participants (N=81) read about an Antebellum museum with one of two missions, one devoted to reconstructing the museum for historical accuracy, common to historical museums, and the other to addressing and informing visitors about the era’s slavery. Participants also saw pictures of either a predominantly White or Black Board of Visitors. We found that only in the addressing slavery condition with a predominantly Black board did these Black participants report liking and feeling welcome in the museum. Importantly, they felt that museum would have more influence from and be more empowering for the Black community. The present findings have implications for interventions aimed at increasing Black Americans’ engagement with and sense of ownership in public spaces associated with Antebellum architecture. They suggest that reclaiming—and not only redeeming—spaces with such histories is important.