title: Thing in museum. Museum collection as structure
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Dolák, Jan
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2019-04-03T11:08:08Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2019-04-03T11:08:08Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/spbu19.2018.202
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15437
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: A museum is a «world of the things». The article deals with the basic signs of things from
  philosophical point of view. Using ideas of several thinkers (Russel, Rorty, Husserl, Heidegger, Wittgenstein,
  Patočka, Maure) article shows that we should not see a thing as something isolated, but as a piece of some
  systems, that is typical also for museum collections, especially from thought point of view. The thing exists
  only with a relation toward other things and different relations. The museum object can be count as a part
  of the «three worlds» of Karl Popper. Museum object is an authentic witness of previous reality therefore
  it brakes the recent spreading of hyperreality (Baudrillard). Because a museum collection is a structure,
  the article deals with the basic signs of a structure (Foucault, Lord, and Stránský). Museum collection is
  regarded as a structure of some unit and it depends on inner orderliness, inner malleability, the set of relations
  between parts of the unit, the form of the unit. Museum object has both structural and cultural elements.
  The first one relates toward the material substance, the second one toward the context of its applications
  and using. Museum object is something intentionally taken from functioning connections (Beneš). Hence
  not any institution holding valuable things can be count as a museum. The set of museum objects creates
  a museum collection. Useable definition of a collection is that it is a set of things, that belongs together, go
  together well. Just the «belonging together» makes that the value of the collection is higher than the total
  of values of single pieces. The curator must rise from deep knowledges both relevant science and museology.
  He must count the collection as a vivid organism, that should be changed at higher quality permanently.
  Well prepared collection, a structure as a language, shows: there is an empty place and backwards there is
  somebody missing. The task of museums is not the collecting of things, albeit valuable, but the formation
  of the real collection, collection as the system and structure.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Issue 2(24)
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: museum
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: thing
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: collection
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: structure
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Thing in museum. Museum collection as structure
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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