Experience of Art, Architecture and Cultural Heritage
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Photo from: http://nordlandsmuseet.no/en/nordlandsmuseet/ |
We started our course with a
visit of The Nordland Museum which is focused on history of Bodø and
surrounding areas. In one of the oldest buildings in Bodø, which is, in
compare with other museums, quite small you can find exhibition about
Sami people, some parts from history of the town from the Viking Age
till today, old dry aquarium and also watch short movie about Bodø.
The exhibition is located in right part of building in 1st and 2nd
floor. In both floors you can see quite a lot of artifacts - in Sami
exhibit (Sami's typical turf hut called gamme, subjects of day use
etc.), exhibit of fishing or life in Bodø before and after II. World
War. There are also a lot of vintage photos
that complement the texts during the exhibition. All texts are in museum in Norwegian, but brochures about museum in many languages are provided.
My
impression is good, I find this museum interesting. The best part for
me was reconstruction of a cellar room ruined by bomb (from II.WW). I
also find film interesting, because it is coordinated piece of sounds,
pictures and special effects. What I missed was more description of
history after year 1945. Also all information presented in film and
actually in whole museum are more focus on better side of history and
facts. I am little sceptical about last short video commercial on Bodø.
It is evident, that this video is mainly for tourists and Norwegians,
so it should be attractive. But in my point of view is video too much
idyllic. Darkness during winter time, strong wind are not mentioned,
just for example :)
In my head is still article by Randolph
Starn, where I actually firstly heard about idea critical analysis of
museums. I have never been thinking about this point, which is in fact
really important. For me, future teacher, is important to work with this
fact exspecially when I want to work with museums like a part of
resource of information, which can be used during teaching. But like
books should be all resources checked if their quality and informations
are objective.
Starn, Randolph. (2005). “A Historian’s Brief Guide to New Museum
Studies” The American Historical Review,
110:1 (Feb.), 68-98.