民族博物馆中民族藏品的现代表达

The Contemporary Expression of Ethnographic Collections in Ethnographic Museums

民族博物馆承担着展示少数民族故事和少数民族历史的责任,尤其应值得重视的是藏品背后的民族知识、情感、集体记忆和其民族文化的现代生存与表现方式。在现代语境下,民族博物馆面临着如何重新认知并阐释藏品,重新书写少数民族的历史并展示他们的现在,赋予民族藏品新的文化意义和生命的挑战。但对民族藏品的现代阐释不应完全脱离其原始语境及意义,而是在此基础上唤醒其在当代社会中的重要性。并且,由于非物质文化遗产作为民族藏品的文化知识和深层精神情感的表达方式,对于民族藏品的现代表达,需要将其与活态的非物质文化遗产联系起来,向公众传递其过去与现在的意义,并展现出少数民族文化的延续性与创新性。

Ethnographic museums present ethnic minority cultures and history. Hence, they are supposed to pay more attention on ethnic minorities' cultural knowledge, emotion, collective memory and the contemporary expression of ethnic minority cultures that emanate from ethnographic collections. In the contemporary context, ethnographic museums attempt to rethink the representation of ethnographic collections and present the close link between their past and present, which endows ethnographic collections with new cultural meanings. Yet, the contemporary interpretation of ethnographic collections cannot be isolated from their original contexts and meanings. Moreover, intangible cultural heritage is recognised as the expression of the cultural knowledge and collective memory. The contemporary expression of ethnographic collections is supposed to closely link to the dynamic intangible cultural heritage. Under this assumption, ethnographic museums are able to transmit cultural meaning embedded in the past and the present of ethnic minority cultures in order to show the continuity and recreation of ethnic minority cultures.