Abstract
his is the first book to analyze and evaluate the development of Lithuanian museology (museum studies) from the latter half of the 18th century into the 21st century. It is based on the extensive research materials, many of them archival, gathered by the author Dr. Nastazija Keršytė during 2012–2014 while doing the research project “Development of Lithuanian Museology in 1752–2012”, sponsored by the Research Council of Lithuania (contract LIT-5-16). A stimulus for the writing of this monograph was the opportunity afforded by the government program Lithuanian Museums in 1812–2012 (Lietuvos muziejų kelias 1812–2012 m.), one of the initiatives undertaken in the Year of the Museum in 2012. Unfortunately, Dr. Keršytė died before completing this monograph on 18 May 2016, International Museum Day. As a long-time friend and colleague, I had promised to write an English-language summary of her book.More in PDF.
Highlights
Development of Lithuanian Museology from the Latter Half of the 18th Century to the 21st Century. This is the first book to analyze and evaluate the development of Lithuanian museology from the latter half of the 18th century into the 21st century. It is based on the extensive research materials, many of them archival, gathered by the author Dr Nastazija Keršytė during 2012–2014 while doing the research project “Development of Lithuanian Museology in 1752–2012”, sponsored by the Research Council of Lithuania
A stimulus for the writing of this monograph was the opportunity afforded by the government program Lithuanian Museums in 1812–2012 (Lietuvos muziejų kelias 1812–2012 m.), one of the initiatives undertaken in the Year of the Museum in 2012
The development of museology in Lithuania from the latter half of the 18th century until the 21st century shares the general characteristics of global museology formation, but has very much been influenced by local political, ideological and cultural factors
Summary
This is the first book to analyze and evaluate the development of Lithuanian museology (museum studies) from the latter half of the 18th century into the 21st century. Keršytė’s work is based on the concept of museology developed by the Austrian museologist Friedrich Waidacher (Handbuch der Allgemeinen Museologie, 1999) Terms such as museography and museology are rarely used in the English-speaking world, where the terms museum practice and museum studies are preferred. Other “cabinets”, as these early museums or study collections were called, were established in the fields of physics, anatomy, pathology, chemistry, mineralogy and zoology in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The first doctoral dissertations dealing with museum practice were by: Steponas Gečas (1993), Nastazija Keršytė (1994), Rimvydas Laužikas (2006), Žygintas Būčys (2012), Rasa Pranskūnienė (2013) and Ignas Kapleris (2014)
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