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Creating Silesian Identity: A Comparative Review of Three Regional Museums

  • The complex history of Silesia with its shifting political, cultural and geographic boundaries and its current location spanning across three state borders, poses a challenge to anyone trying to define it. Associations of what constitutes ‘Silesian identity’ can vary considerably depending on the national context of the viewer. The article reviews three museums in Görlitz (Germany), Katowice (Poland) and Opava (Czech Republic) and evaluates how they present the region’s shared past to expressThe complex history of Silesia with its shifting political, cultural and geographic boundaries and its current location spanning across three state borders, poses a challenge to anyone trying to define it. Associations of what constitutes ‘Silesian identity’ can vary considerably depending on the national context of the viewer. The article reviews three museums in Görlitz (Germany), Katowice (Poland) and Opava (Czech Republic) and evaluates how they present the region’s shared past to express Silesian identity.show moreshow less

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Document Type:Article
DOI:https://doi.org/10.25626/0085
Creator and project details
Author:Ondřej Táborský
Editor:Joachim von PuttkamerGND, Michal KopečekGND, Włodzimierz BorodziejGND
Publishing Institution:Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung – Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
Title details
Title (English):Creating Silesian Identity: A Comparative Review of Three Regional Museums
Parent Title (English):Cultures of History Forum
Release Date:2020/08/24
Date of Publication (online):2020/02/12
Date of first Publication:2018/06/21
Language:English
Subject indexing
DDC-Classification:9 Geschichte und Geografie / 90 Geschichte / 900 Geschichte und Geografie
Collections:Cultures of History Forum (Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena)
Tag:Görlitz; Katowice; Opava; Silesia; museum; regional identity; representation
GND Keyword:Schlesien; Slezské zemské muzeum; Muzeum Śląskie <Katowice>; Schlesisches Museum zu Görlitz; Regionale Identität
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File Size:12131 KB
MIME-Type:application/pdf
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