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- Title
Can Heritage Objects Represent a Home? A Participatory Project in the Ethnological Museum Berlin.
- Authors
BACHICH, MARIAM
- Abstract
The project "Can Heritage Objects Represent a Home'?" was undertaken in Berlin's Ethnological Museum to study the Syrian collection with participatory methods. It is an expansion of the "Sharing Knowledge" project (Scholz 2018/19), which studied the Museum's Amazonian collection. The project was conducted between September 2017 and June 2020 and, like the Amazonian project, was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. The collection (objects, photographs, and music recordings) originated from different provinces of niodern-day Syria and the Levant, with the main corpus dating back to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Syrian participatory project explored this collection in terms of both tangible and intangible heritage. The project aimed to make the collection known to Syrians and to engage them in the project as partners. This engagement took place in two ways: through in-person meetings and via an online platform. During the project. a dual process was considered: not only enriching the knowledge about the collection with help from the Syrian partners, but also introducing Syrians to a part of their cultural heritage and letting the collection be a source for their inspiration. creativity. discussion. and critique, etc, This means "using" the collection and the research around it for "needs which fit our present time," especially for Syrians in exile. A new and sustainable relationship between the museum and the Syrian partners is promoted through the project. Information and ideas were collected throughout the project, and many Syrians were deeply engaged. This essay will provide an overview of this project.
- Subjects
SYRIANS; CULTURAL property; ETHNOLOGICAL museums &; collections
- Publication
Baessler-Archiv, 2020, Vol 66, p139
- ISSN
0005-3856
- Publication type
Article