Cultural Heritage Products Research Articles

Sales Promotion in a World Economy

Investigates how sales promotion relates to the product base of a given country; gives factors to be considered by international companies in the world economy; believes political realities are most often the product of a country's cultural heritage and assesses the differing government practices in socialist states and democratic states. Continues to describe the four types of existing economies: first world; second world; third world; and fourth world in relation to the world production market.

Genstandsindsamling og arbejderkultur

Museum collecting and working-class culture Collecting practice at the Workers' Museum in Copenhagen is described and discussed. First the author offers an argument for the field of collecting which the museum represents. The order of things as presented in a hierarchy determined by the market varies from another determined by the production of cultural heritage.

Gjenstander og meninger i det post-koloniale museet. Kontaktsoner og autoetnografi

James Clifford has proposed looking at museums as contact zones, where different knowledge systems meet. In a collaborative project between Alta Museum and Alta Secondary School in Finnmark, Norway, the museum made an attempt to open up the power relationship between the museum and students and families by giving space in the exhibitions to “private” objects and stories from everyday life. In this article, I discuss the opportunities and constraints associated with opening up the museum’s methodology for the objects and meanings that “the others” have considered worthy of preservation. I argue that the changing structures of museum practice may lead to new reflections on history and heritage in a museum context, and to the democratization of public cultural heritage production.