Odgovor na krizu muzeja: nova muzeologija i ekomuzej
A response to the museum crisis: new museology and ecomuseum

Summary/Abstract: XX century was dominated by traditional museological discourse and conservative perception of the museum. The majority of museologists used to perceive a museum as a place where the past resides, while the central position was reserved for fetish museum items completely decontextualized in respect to social realities. The dominance of this traditional perception of museum led to a museum crisis. There are real and symbolic unsurpassable walls built between "museum reality" and reality of life. The museum crisis ends in the 1980s by emergence of a new perception known as the so-called new museology. The main characteristics of this new museology are based on criticism of traditional museums, and especially on the criticism of the attitude of those museums towards the issues in the society they exist in. The new museology confirms a political role of museums with an attitude that museums are not politically neutral areas, but rather they should always send out specific political messages. An ecomuseum developed in the early 1970s as a new form of museums. It is based on the concept that museums must serve both communities and individuals. The new museology provided an opportunity for a transformation of museum into an institution that will create and nurture suspicion, reflection and critical thinking but also be aware that any museum reality cannot be outside real social relations.

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