The Museum of the Unknown City. Part II

The article discusses various projects (in the real world or on the social media) to do with creating a museum in and about the unknown town of Mizil. The “Museum of the Unknown Town” is the memory of a non-existent town. This is because most museums reconstruct worlds that have ceased to exist. The...

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Autor principal:	Cosmin Manolache
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Publicado:	National Museum of the Romanian Peasant 2021
Materias:	museum studies recent history local memory history as fiction subjective history community project archive in progress photo narrative Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology GN301-674
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5d4f8982cbd74191be5b0afc2845ecad2021-11-22T13:51:26ZThe Museum of the Unknown City. Part II 1224-62712734-8350https://doaj.org/article/5d4f8982cbd74191be5b0afc2845ecad2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://martor.muzeultaranuluiroman.ro/archive/martor-26-2021/2021_10/https://doaj.org/toc/1224-6271https://doaj.org/toc/2734-8350The article discusses various projects (in the real world or on the social media) to do with creating a museum in and about the unknown town of Mizil. The “Museum of the Unknown Town” is the memory of a non-existent town. This is because most museums reconstruct worlds that have ceased to exist. They reinvent them as part of a utopic exercise applied to the past, despite the overwhelming amount of information that they have at their disposal and which they employ. However, knowledge is not the same as storage, but rather, to an extent that differs from case to case, it is also imagination, which enables innovation. The unpredictable connections between images and the texts of different personal experiences have the power not only to sensitise local visitors to the town’s history, but also to make them aware that they are a part of that history, that they can enrich it by cultivating and practising memory. The article argues that the communist past of the town and of Romania in general might be viewed in a more nuanced way, as opposed to the use of clichés and a uniform viewpoint. The author makes use of creative writing as his technique, drawing inspiration from hand-picked images. Cosmin ManolacheNational Museum of the Romanian Peasantarticlemuseum studiesrecent historylocal memoryhistory as fictionsubjective historycommunity projectarchive in progressphoto narrativeEthnology. Social and cultural anthropologyGN301-674ENFRMartor, Vol 26, Pp 147-155 (2021)
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topic	museum studies recent history local memory history as fiction subjective history community project archive in progress photo narrative Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology GN301-674
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description	The article discusses various projects (in the real world or on the social media) to do with creating a museum in and about the unknown town of Mizil. The “Museum of the Unknown Town” is the memory of a non-existent town. This is because most museums reconstruct worlds that have ceased to exist. They reinvent them as part of a utopic exercise applied to the past, despite the overwhelming amount of information that they have at their disposal and which they employ. However, knowledge is not the same as storage, but rather, to an extent that differs from case to case, it is also imagination, which enables innovation. The unpredictable connections between images and the texts of different personal experiences have the power not only to sensitise local visitors to the town’s history, but also to make them aware that they are a part of that history, that they can enrich it by cultivating and practising memory. The article argues that the communist past of the town and of Romania in general might be viewed in a more nuanced way, as opposed to the use of clichés and a uniform viewpoint. The author makes use of creative writing as his technique, drawing inspiration from hand-picked images.
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The Museum of the Unknown City. Part II

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