The presentation of folk culture at museums: Perspectives on the exhibitions of folk culture at the Danish National Museum

• Autores: Mette Skougaard
• Localización: Anales del Museo Nacional de Antropología, ISSN 1135-1853, Nº 1, 1994, págs. 139-150
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The Danish National Museum is presently undergoing a large scale modernización with the aim of strenghtening it's public appeal. As a result of this modernization programme, the museum has been rebuild and the exhibitions renewed. As part of this, thc displays of the Danish Folk Museum, which is a department of the National Museum, are being changed.

    The department is scheduled to open again in 1998 with a completely new exhibition of the cultural history of Denmark from 1660 to our times. This paper outlines some perspectives of the historical development of the Folk Museum seen in relation to the formulation of basic ideas and principies for the coming exhibitions.