On ethnographic tracks and museum crossroads. A handful of reflections from the experience of ethnographic museum curator

Authors

  • Ilona Sawicka Muzeum Ziemi Chełmskiej im. Wiktora Ambroziewicza

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12775/ZWAM.2023.10.04

Keywords

Roman Śledź, Wiktor Ambroziewicz Chełm Region Museum in Chełm, wooden sculpture, amateur art, collection

Abstract

The Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum in Kraków (MEK) has the oldest preserved ethnographic collection in Poland. At the end of the 20th century, social changes as well as a paradigm shift in science posed new challenges for museologists, and even then, the key issue became - what an ethnographic museum is supposed to be in the modern world. Regardless
of the recurring scientific discourse on these and similar topics, the MEK curators, including the author, had to face emerging problems in their daily practice. Exhibition School! School! When I remember you..., presented in MEK in 2000/2001, is an example concerning various aspects of museum work, of which the problem of collecting stands out in the foreground.
Already then, the work on this exhibition indicated the direction of contextual building of museum collections, which was confirmed by the case of a family collection of toys and then continued at the MEK during research exploring various cultural areas, e.g., as part of the Wedding 21 project.

References

Fryś Ewa, Iracka Anna, Pokropek Marian

: Sztuka ludowa w Polsce, Warszawa: Arkady

Grabowski Józef

: Sztuka ludowa, Warszawa: Arkady

Jackowski Aleksander

: Współczesna rzeźba zwana ludową, „Polska Sztuka Ludowa” nr 3–4, Warszawa:

Państwowy Instytut Badania Sztuki Ludowej.

: Roman Śledź z Malinówki, Katalog wystawy.

: Sztuka zwana naiwną, Warszawa: Krupski i S-ka, s. 200–201.

Klimmeck Frank,

: Interview Frank Klimmeck – Dorota Sledz – Roman Śledź, [w:] Klimmeck F. (red.) Ecce homo. Seht, welchein Mensch! Oto człowiek. Retrospektywa prac Romana Śledzia, Oldenburg: KomReGis.

Latoszek Mirosława

: Monografia Romana Śledzia, praca magisterska, Katedra Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej UW, maszynopis.

Sawicka Ilona

: Lubię smutne twarze… Roman Śledź. Rzeźba, Chełm.

: 80 lat chełmskiej etnografii. Historia działu Etnografii Muzeum Ziemi Chełmskiej im. Wiktora Ambroziewicza w Chełmie, „Rocznik Chełmski”, t. 19, s. 209–231.

Reinfuss Roman, Świderski Jan

: Sztuka ludowa w Polsce, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie.

Downloads

Published

2023-12-15

How to Cite

1.
SAWICKA, Ilona. On ethnographic tracks and museum crossroads. A handful of reflections from the experience of ethnographic museum curator. Annual Review of Museum Anthropology. Online. 15 December 2023. Vol. 10, no. 10, pp. 73-86. [Accessed 29 June 2025]. DOI 10.12775/ZWAM.2023.10.04.

Issue

No. 10 (2023)

Section

Artykuły naukowe

License

Copyright (c) 2023 Ilona Sawicka

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

  1. The authors give the publisher (Polish Ethnological Society) non-exclusive license to use the work in the following fields:
    • recording of a Work / subject of a related copyright;
    • reproduction (multiplication) Work / subject of a related copyright in print and digital technique (ebook, audiobook);
    • marketing of units of reproduced Work / subject of a related copyright;
    • introduction of Work / object of related copyright to computer memory;
    • dissemination of the work in an electronic version in the formula of open access under the Creative Commons license (CC BY - ND 4.0).
  2. The authors give the publisher the license free of charge.
  3. The use of the work by publisher in the above mentioned aspects is not limited in time, quantitatively nor territorially.

Stats

Number of views and downloads: 254
Number of citations: 0