Ethnographical collection at National Museum of Denmark: ethnological, cultural anthropological and museological analysis of cultural representations

Draganić, Sanja. (2018). Ethnographical collection at National Museum of Denmark: ethnological, cultural anthropological and museological analysis of cultural representations. Diploma Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
Department of Information Science. [mentor Rubić, Tihana and Stublić, Helena].

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Abstract

This paper describes historical overview of Ethnographical Collection at National Museum of Denmark and collection practices of its objects in the colonial framework. It is showing the chronological overview of the leadership of the Collection, even before it was founded when it was part of the Royal Chamber, to the first independent institution called Royal Ethnographical Museum and to the present status as one of the independent collections at National Museum of Denmark. The paper is analyzing the present state of the Collection through its two permanent exhibitions: Peoples of the Earth and Ethnographical Treasures and brings forward possible solutions for presenting its objects. Research was based on the participant observer in a guided tour and in an independent visit.

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