The local museum in the global village : rethinking ideas, functions and practices of local history museums in rapidly changing diverse communities / Insa Müller.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Summary -- 1. Introduction: Local history museums in changing communities -- 1.1. The islands of Hitra and Frøya -- 1.2. Museum representations of local history on Hitra and Frøya -- 1.3. Lines of investigation -- 1.4. Research position -- theory and practice in museum studies -- 1.5. Outline of chapters -- Rethinking the local history museum -- 2. Inspiration from museum and memory studies -- 2.1. Ideas of the museum -- 2.2. Museums and communities -- 2.3. Museums and memory -- 3. The Norwegian context

3.1. From identity-affirmative folk museums to spaces for polylocal history -- 3.2. Ideas of the museum as expressed in NorwegianMuseum policy documents (1971-2009) -- 3.3. Museum professionals' views on the museum as a 'dialogue institution' -- 3.4. Norwegian museums: relevant through dialogue? -- Historical consciousness among Hitraand Frøya's population and the local museum -- 4. Memory and history, historical culture, historical consciousness and the local museum -- 4.1. Memory and history -- 4.2. Historical culture -- 4.3. Historical consciousness

4.4. Historical consciousness in research on museums -- 5. Historical consciousness among Hitra's and Frøya's population -- 5.1. Oral history theory and methodology -- 5.2. Oral history inspires museum practice -- 5.3. Methodology -- 5.4. Manifold ways of relating to the (local) past: Historical consciousness among local residents in Frøya and Hitra -- 5.5. Three ideal types of historical consciousness -- 5.6. Three examples: Liv, Anna and Kornelius -- 5.7. Talk about museums

5.8. Museum practice with a focus on different types of historical consciousness: Implications for local history museums -- An experiment in contemporary documentation -- 6. Documentation of labour immigrants' experiences and views of the local past and present -- 6.1. Contemporary collecting and documentation -- 6.2. Interviews in contemporary documentation -- 6.3. Dialogic interviews as a way to engage with individuals and local history during documentation processes -- 7. Concluding remarks: The local museum as facilitator of and partner in negotiations of local history, identity and belonging

7.1. Rethinking the idea of the local history museum -- 7.2. Rethinking functions of the local history museum -- starting withthe local community -- 7.3. Practices -- dialogic documentation interviews -- Bibliography

In remote areas of Europe, local history museums struggle to connect with the rapidly changing and increasingly diverse communities around them. This book asks how these museums can recast themselves to strengthen the links to their communities. Combining theoretical deliberations, empirical investigations of the case of two Norwegian islands and a museum experiment, this book offers starting points for rethinking this institution, while at the same time providing suggestions for locally adapted museum practice. The book is of interest to anyone interested in the present and future of local history and small local history museums in times of major demographic transformation.

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