scholarly journals CONDUCT PROCEDURES IN CASE OF THEFT OF ARTEFACTS FROM MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Muzealnictwo ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 107-112
Author(s):  
Adam Grajewski
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Crime Scene ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Surrounding Area ◽  
Museum Exhibit ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Police Report ◽  
Whole Number ◽  
Official Data

Museum collections very often contain artefacts of a significant material value, which are also of great importance for the national heritage. Exhibits listed in a museum inventory belong to the capacious category of national goods, which means they are protected by law. Given the whole number of crimes against the cultural heritage, museums are certainly a group of institutions least likely to be threatened by it. However, we must not forget, that theft might happen anywhere; even the largest and perfectly safeguarded museum is not free from this type of danger. When a museum exhibit gets stolen, the following procedure shall be applied: closing all the entrances, informing the guards, checking the security devices, securing the crime scene and the whole area of an exhibition, limiting an access to the crime scene, informing the supervisors (directors), informing the police, checking all the rooms and the surrounding area, securing the monitoring system and documentation, having a police report filed, reporting the loss with the description for putting it in an official data base. It seems worthwhile to take measures to increase both knowledge and awareness of museum employees on a regular basis, as well as to analyse the patterns of conduct in reference to legal regulations and existing procedures.

scholarly journals Protection of national heritage in the light of the applicable law and the actions provided in this area by police in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 177-198
Author(s):  
Jacek Dworzecki ◽  
Izabela Nowicka ◽  
Andrzej Urbanek ◽  
Adam Kwiatkowski
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Applicable Law ◽  
Serious Crime ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Protection Of Cultural Heritage

The issue of national heritage is an inseparable element of the existence of every nation. The article presents the legal regulations aimed at the protection of cultural heritage in Poland, as well as statistical data relating to crime in this area. The solutions adopted by the Polish police in the field of the identifying and combating of crime against cultural property and national heritage are also described. Furthermore, the article highlights the most serious crime against the national heritage that has occurred in Poland in recent years. The subject article was prepared on the basis of the analysis of literature, existing legislation and two interviews with Polish police officers.

scholarly journals REGULATIONS WITH RESPECT TO CIVIL TURNOVER IN THE ACT ON THE RESTITUTION OF POLISH HERITAGE ASSETS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO MUSEUMS’ OPERATION

Muzealnictwo ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 198-207
Author(s):  
Adam Barbasiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Civil Law ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Central Concept ◽  
Ownership Transfer ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Private Museums ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Public Collection

It is the legal regulations related to civil turnover specified in the Act of 25 May 2017 on the Restitution of Polish Heritage Assets (consolidated text, Journal of Laws 2019, Item 1591) in the context of the activity of museums and other institutions running a museum activity that is the topic of the paper. They speak of legal activities including ownership transfer or charge on Poland’s heritage assets pertaining to public collections, or the ban on acquiring assets from a person unauthorized to dispose of them or manage them by prescription, as well as of the non-limitation of claims for their release. The Author analyses the central concept of the quoted Act: that of the <u>national heritage assets of the Polish Republic</u> pertaining to public collections, while discussing in detail both criteria that are related to it: subject- and ownership-related ones. He points to the fact that the definition of public collections it contains is extremely broad, covering not only public collections in the colloquial meaning of the term, but also the collections of the majority of private museums, as well as non-museum collections of private entities and persons, as long as they have applied public financing. In the further part of the paper, the civil-law regulations specified in the Act are discussed, with special emphasis on the requested form of the legal actions including the transfer of ownership or burden (in writing with a certified date) suggesting that this can apply also to deposit or lending contracts. He also discusses the praxis and judicature with respect to the in writing with a certified date pointing to the possible lack of the awareness of the contract parties that the object of the contract pertains to a public collection in compliance with the provisions of the Act, and that the special contract format should be kept. In this context the Author presents some practical solutions allowing to avoid certain negative consequences. In the conclusion it is emphasized that the regulation contains certain concepts which might inspire essential interpretative doubts having impact on the application of the discussed regulations.

Library and Museum Collections Digitization Projects in Finland

2009 ◽  
pp. 95-100
Author(s):  
Yulia S. Chechikova
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Scientific Heritage

Digitization of a national cultural and scientific heritage is one of the long-term strategic problems of the European countries’ governments. Member countries of the European Union make major efforts in providing access to their cultural heritage. In the article the process of an access provision is described for Finland.

The less considered part: Contextualizing immaterial heritage from German colonial contexts in the restitution debate

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Mèhèza Kalibani
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Inventory Data ◽  
Sound Recordings ◽  
German Colonialism ◽  
The People ◽  
Available Information

Abstract Since the publication of the “restitution report” by Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy in November 2018, the debate around the restitution of African artifacts inherited from German colonialism in German museums has become increasingly intense. While the restitution debate in Germany is generally focused on “material cultural heritage” and human remains, this reflection attempts to contextualize the “immaterial heritage” (museum collections inventory data, photographs, movies, sound recordings, and digital archive documents) from German colonialism and plead for its consideration in this debate. It claims that the first step of restitution consists of German ethnological museums being transparent about their possessions of artifacts from colonial contexts, which means providing all available information about museum collections from colonial contexts and making them easily accessible to the people from the former German colonies.

scholarly journals Things that time forgot Native American objects in Danish Museums Problems and possibilities

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-76
Author(s):  
Laura Ahlqvist ◽  
Mathias Bjørnevad ◽  
Felix Riede ◽  
Magdalena Naum
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Native American ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Museum History ◽  
Rich Material ◽  
Timely Issue

We present a hitherto unresearched part of a shared Danish and American cultural heritage: Native American objects in Danish regional museum collections. Thus far, we have identified more than 200 Native American artefacts in 27 local museums, largely a result of Danes abroad privately collecting in the late 1800s and 1950s–70s. The majority of these artefacts, many of which are prehistoric in age, have never been displayed and have lingered in storage since they were accessioned, understudied and often unrecognised for what they are. Recent deaccessioning pressures from the Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces potentially place these objects at risk of destruction, making the discussions presented here a timely issue. These Native American objects, like the unknown numbers of other non-Danish artefacts held by regional museums, hold tremendous potential to elucidate overlooked parts of Danish museum history, trans-Atlantic networks and interconnectedness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as rich material cultures originating far from Denmark. We argue that this perspective is highly relevant and should be utilised in Danish museums, as it begets reflections on Danish glocal identity and society in a post-colonial world.

Cultural heritage: the art library cuts across borders in Sweden

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 39-41
Author(s):  
Kerstin Assarsson-Rizzi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Research Community ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Internet Search ◽  
Royal Swedish Academy ◽  
Search Service ◽  
National Heritage

Vitterhetsakademiens Library (The Library of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities) at the Swedish National Heritage Board is a partner in the development of new services in Sweden, both physically at the Library and digitally on the internet. An agreement signed by four partners in September 2007 aimed to strengthen and develop the Library’s services to the research community. In 2005 seven libraries in Stockholm formed a network with the specific aim of improving the quality of library services for research in the humanities. And in 2007 a new internet search service was launched which enables cross searching of major databases that cover various aspects of the Swedish cultural heritage; this includes two databases hosted by the Library. This process of cutting across institutional and sectoral borders has been facilitated by modern technology.

scholarly journals Design of Digital Interaction for Complex Museum Collections

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Laura Loredana Micoli ◽  
Giandomenico Caruso ◽  
Gabriele Guidi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Interactive Multimedia ◽  
Multimedia Applications ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Complementary Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Funerary Ritual

Interactive multimedia applications in museums generally aim at integrating into the exhibition complementary information delivered through engaging narratives. This article discusses a possible approach for effectively designing an interactive app for museum collections whose physical pieces are mutually related by multiple and articulated logical interconnections referring to elements of immaterial cultural heritage that would not be easy to bring to the public with traditional means. As proof of this concept, a specific case related to ancient Egyptian civilization has been developed. A collection of Egyptian artifacts such as mummies, coffins, and amulets, associated with symbols, divinities, and magic spells through the structured funerary ritual typical of that civilization, has been explained through a virtual application based on the concepts discussed in the methodological section.

scholarly journals A database devoted to the insects of the cultural heritage

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Fabien Fohrer ◽  
Michel Martinez ◽  
Franck Dorkeld
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Historical Buildings ◽  
Cultural Properties

This database, implemented by both the CICRP and the INRA, gathers the most important pests affecting the cultural heritage. These insects represent a serious threat to the preservation of cultural properties such as museum collections, libraries and archives, movable objects and immovable objects in historical buildings. It is an easy tool for identifying the species of interest. It also permits very prompt undertaking of the required actions against the infestations. This database is of interest to any professional in charge of the conservation of the cultural heritage along with any other professional or scientist interested in these subjects.

LEGAL REGULATIONS IN THE FIELD OF CULTURAL HERITAGE PROTECTION IN POLAND IN THE YEARS 1944-1989 IN TERMS OF CULTURAL SECURITY OF THE COUNTRY

2017 ◽  
Vol 186 (4) ◽  
pp. 88-102
Author(s):  
Tomasz LANDMANN
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
The Political ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Heritage Protection ◽  
Social Distribution

The article attempts to analyze the meaning of legal regulations developed in the field of cultural heritage protection in the years 1944-1989. It has been argued that these years were markedly different in terms of law in the sphere of cultural heritage protection than the period between 1918 and 1939 analyzed by the author in another article. The author decided to refer to legal acts and literature in the form of elaborations and magazines in the field of monuments protection. The specificity of the chosen subject and problem required the choice of a scientific method in the form of legal acts analysis, supported by literature review. The presented information shows that the period between 1944 and 1989 was characterized by a different approach of the Polish authorities towards the issue of cultural heritage protection in comparison to the years 1918-1939. The mentioned protection had an instrumental character and was one of the political-ideological tools influencing the society. Furthermore, the growth of legal protection of cultural assets in the age of the PRL took place in the conditions of centralized administration that adopted the idea of social distribution of many such assets, which led to devastation of numerous immovable monuments and sometimes also the antique furnishings. All the introduced legal regulations required a thorough change and redefinition of the legal status after the political-structural transformation of 1989.

scholarly journals The Ostenfeld farm at the open-air museum; Aspects of the role of folk museums in conflicts of national heritage

1970 ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Mette Skougaard
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
The Village

The founder of the Danish Folk Museum and the Open-Air Museum, Bernhard Olsen, took a special interest in former Danish provinces; Scandinavian areas lost to Sweden in the 17th century, and Schleswig lost to Prussia in 1864. This paper examines the efforts made by Bernhard Olsen to obtain a farm house from the village of Ostenfeld in Schleswigfor the Open Air Museum, and the struggle between the Danish and the German elements in the attempt to define the national and cultural heritage of the region. These nationalistic intentions are seen in relation to the choice of exhibits and exhibition language in the new folk museums of the period. 

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