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Between musealisation of
theatre and theatralization of
Dorota Kawęcka
Aleksandra Janus museum
- collecting, exhibiting, participating
www.innemuzeum.pl

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A theatre museum:
two perspectives
“participation in
“more than interactive”
the first place”
collections and visitor’s
exhibitions perspective perspective
what and how? for whom?

ger in a museum is a tiger in a museum and not a tiger
Kenneth Hudson

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Theatre
performative
immaterial event-ness
intangible
heritage

All heritage is intangible
Laurajane Smith

Who’s the
visitor?
In what
activities he
for What are his
needs and
can take part? whom? expectations?
What are his
motivations?

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Levels of participation
Interactive
exhibition
Participatory
museum
Participatory strategies of
collecting and curating

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Participatory museum
A participatory cultural institution is a place where visitors can
create, share, and connect with each other around content. Create
means that visitors contribute their own ideas, objects, and creative
expression. o the institution and to each other. Share means that
people discuss, take home, remix, and redistribute both what they see
and what they make dur- ing their visit. Connect means that visitors
socialize with other people—staff and visitors—who share their
particular interests. Around content means that visitors’ conversations
and creations focus on the evidence, objects, and ideas most
important to the institution in question.
Nina Simon

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A theatre museum
as a participatory museum
what and how?
for whom?
what for?

Theatre museums are places of commemoration, in which artistic heritage
is preserved and made accessible. They are repositories of cultural history
and of cultural debates, and they are also places of public reflection. (...)
Theatre museums must raise public awareness of theatre and theatre
history, so that this field comes back into current cultural discourse; and
they must also keep an eye on and document contemporary theatrical
developments. Keeping these two time axes in play is one of the most
challenging tasks of the theatre museum, in its engagement with this most
intangible of arts.
Claudia Balk

Theatre museums are places of com- memoration, in which artistic heritage
is preserved and made accessible. They are repositories of cultural history
and of cultural debates, and they are also places of public reflection. (...)
Theatre museums must raise public awareness of theatre and theatre
history, so that this field comes back into current cultural discourse; and
they must also keep an eye on and document contemporary theatrical
developments. Keeping these two time axes in play is one of the most
challenging tasks of the theatre museum, in its engagement with this most
intangible of arts.
Claudia Balk

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A theatre museum
as a participatory museum
New audience
Participatory
and new forms
museum
of participation

Source: flickr.com
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Conclusion
Thank you!