从社会发展及用户需求角度看数字博物馆的定义

现阶段文博界普遍认为数字博物馆一般是由博物馆建设的为用户提供数字化物质及非物质遗产服务的网站。从社会发展及用户需求角度出发,数字博物馆定义应该为：数字博物馆一般是由博物馆建设的,为实现文博资源为全社会公平享有的愿景及满足个人对文博资源的最大化需求,而提供数字化物质及非物质遗产服务的网站。     

Museums in revolution: changing national narratives in revolutionary Cuba between 1959 and 1990

This paper explores the function and role of museums in revolutionary Cuba between 1959 and 1990. Drawing on a variety of hitherto unexplored archives and interviews with bureaucrats of the Cuban heritage field, the paper argues that there is a close relation between museum production, the prevailing narration of nation, internal power struggles within the regime and the changing relation with the USSR. Museums were considered primary tools for historical production and politico-ideological socialisation. These were two fundamental issues for communist regimes, concerned with fixing cultural identity and affirming historical continuity. The paper focuses on the case of the Museum of the Revolution to argue that Cuban museums changed in conjunction with the increasing crypto-colonial relations of subordination to the USSR. In the first, humanist and Universalist phase, museums served to expand culture and spread a nationalist-revolutionary narrative of nation. The second period after 1975 witnessed the institutionalisation and Sovietisation of Cuban museums. This involved their transformation into a device to instil a nationwide homogeneous class-based Marxist–Leninist narrative adapted to Cuba from the Soviet model. This ideological closure of museum production contributed to the ideological and identity-building objectives of the regime.     

The politics of representation: the Kuwait National Museum and processes of cultural production

Museums are often sites for the fabrication of hegemonic discourse. They represent the political nature of heritage construction and the instruments used to support these narratives. This paper traces the appropriation of museums as symbols of national projects and argues that not all museums achieve this political end. The Kuwait National Museum designed by Michel Écochard will be examined as a case study for this argument. Écochard’s project demonstrates the many challenges that develop between nationalist politics, heritage production and competing centres of power.     

How does a house remember? Heritage-ising return migration in an Indonesian-Chinese house museum in Guangdong,PRC

This paper is an attempt to integrate heritage and museum studies through exploring the complex relationship between the materiality of architecture and social memories with a house museum of return migration in Guangdong, PRC as a case study. It unveils that the ongoing process of memory is intrinsically intertwined with spatial and temporal dimensions of the physical dwelling and built environment and the wider social-historical context and power relations shaping them. I argue that it is the house as ‘object of exhibit’ just as much as the exhibits inside the house that materialises the turbulent and traumatic migratory experience of Returned Overseas Chinese, embodies their memories and exposes the contested nature of museumification. By looking at the socially and geographically marginalised dwelling of return migrants, the house draws people’s attention to the often neglected importance of conceptual periphery in re-theorising what is often assumed to be the core of heritage value. It points to the necessity to integrate displaced, diasporic, transnational subjects to heritage and museum studies that have been traditionally framed within national and territorial boundaries.     

Domestic espionage: David Park's Swallowing the Sun as Troubles thriller

David Park's standing as an author of finely observed works, in which individual frailties are pitted against larger scenarios of conflict and trauma, was recently acknowledged through his winning of the American Ireland Literary Award. His most recent novel, The Truth Commissioner, projects a model of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission onto a Northern Ireland setting, and won the 2009 Christopher Ewart Biggs Memorial Award. The novel this essay examines, Swallowing the Sun (2005), can be read as a re-working of the conventional Troubles thriller. In this novel, the traumas of domestic violence feed into and interweave with state violence in Belfast. Poverty and class inequities are highlighted as causes for both private and public conflict. David Park revises the Troubles thriller to suggest that the pressure to be quiet in the face of suffering is the real enemy to both individual and state welfare. Swallowing the Sun is a powerful challenge to established ideas about genre and context in Northern Ireland, and a moving work from a Northern Ireland author who has, until recently, been relatively overlooked.     

试论中西历史文化之差异对博物馆的影响

博物馆是晚清国人面临民族危难,奋力图强时,伴随着向西方学习的热潮而被引进中国的舶来品。文化的整体性不能被人为割裂,博物馆在西方能够产生并获得发展的社会历史背景和文化土壤,其中某些部分确实是我们的历史传统文化所缺失的,诸如民主意识和制度的确立;用财富换取社会地位的价值导向;具有世界性、现实性、视觉冲击感强、易于交流的藏品;需要以物辅助完成的历史教育、宗教敬畏、科学实践和探索等等。这些部分的缺失,在某种程度上可以作为博物馆在我国公共生活中参与程度始终不高的一部分原因。     

上博藏楚简《鲁邦大旱》校补

论文考释了上海博物馆藏楚简《鲁邦大早》篇的一些关键词语。根据上下文意拟补了所残的简文,系统复原了《鲁邦大早》篇。     

信息时代博物馆展示功能拓展刍议

虚拟数字化博物馆无疑向人们开辟了一个了解世界的新窗口,它不仅加速了博物馆事业的发展,同时,也更大地发挥了物教育功能,实现资料共享。     

Iconic Arctic Shipwrecks,Archaeology, and Museum Narratives

This article reflects on three Arctic shipwrecks currently being reclaimed for future exhibition. Two are icons of polar exploration. Maud was built for Roald Amundsen's North Pole expedition (1917–1925) and Belgica was used in the first Antarctic overwintering expedition (1897–1899). The salvage of Maud in Canada and the ship's return to Norway in 2018 was privately financed. Raising Belgica has been the goal of a Belgian non‐profit organization. The third is a medieval Norwegian wreck excavated in 2017 with community funding. The role of each ship as icon and archaeological heritage is assessed and framed within a broader discussion of museum narratives.