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- Title
Museums as a Means to (Re)Make Regional Identities: The Oltenia Museum (Romania) as Case Study.
- Authors
Popescu, Liliana; Albă, Claudia
- Abstract
In recent decades, ever more museums have begun to put a new emphasis on the education of the public, playing an important role in creating national or regional identities. This paper aims to assess the strategy chosen by the History Section of the Oltenia Museum in Craiova (Romania) to use knowledge, objects and narratives to create a sense of belonging and negotiate identities. Site visits, participant observations and discussions with museum curators, the analysis of texts and discourses were used in order to see if there is a master narrative related to regional identity and to determine the elements used to shape this identity. The results of this study point to the fact that there is an underlying master narrative of the exhibition, stressing the dominant understanding of Oltenia's identity stemming mainly from cultural markers such as religion and language, while acknowledging wider European influences on the national and regional identity.
- Subjects
OLTENIA (Romania); CRAIOVA (Romania); MUSEUM curators; MUSEUMS; PARTICIPANT observation; DISCOURSE analysis; COLLECTIVE memory; REGIONAL identity (Psychology)
- Publication
Societies (2075-4698), 2022, Vol 12, Issue 4, p110
- ISSN
2075-4698
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/soc12040110