Memory, Heritage, and Tradition in the Museum Exhibition Ingrians - The Forgotten Finns

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ID3077934
AuthorsUlla Savolainen (0000-0002-7995-416X, University of Helsinki Department of Cultures, Folklore Studies, corresponding author), Nika Potinkara (University of Helsinki Department of Cultures, Folklore Studies)
Year2021
Volume51
Issue2
Publication date2021-12-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnologia Europaea (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0425-4597 • E-ISSN: 1604-3030
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.16995/ee.3060
OpenAlexW3205964112
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited43

In this article we explore relations between personal, collective, private, and public dimensions of remembrance in the context of the Ingrians - The Forgotten Finns exhibition presented at the National Museum of Finland in 2020 by analyzing it through the lenses of memory, heritage, and tradition. We argue that while promoting remembrance of allegedly absent pasts and experiences of a forgotten group of people, the exhibition simultaneously relied on and reinterpreted earlier nationalistic projects related to heritage and folklore connected to Ingria. Moreover, while the National Museum of Finland enabled the heritagization and mobilization of the exhibition's message, the exhibition reciprocally supported the message of transformation that the museum arguably wished to convey about itself

Archaeology · Art · Art history · Collective memory · Exhibition · Folklore · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Museums and Cultural Heritage

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