Workshop “Everyday Heritage” is organized by the University of Stirling  (Scotland) та Norsk institutt for kulturminneforskning  (Norway), with Ukrainian partners - Museum Crisis Centre and Center for Urban History.

So, those of us who made the effort and went through all the procedures are already reporting on the workshop that took place in the second half of February in Lublin at the Brama Grodzka chapter.

Valeriia Lavrenko, deputy director of the Yavornytskyi Dnipro National Historical Museum for research, said: “Everyday heritage is the tangible and intangible culture that surrounds us every day, which is not always officially recognized and protected at the legislative level, but which acquires value for the local community. It can include local cuisine, ways of organizing leisure activities (for example, English boxing clubs), public buildings, etc.

Many elements of everyday heritage are the foundation of Ukrainian identity. Therefore, the knowledge gained will definitely be used in the implementation of research and educational projects of our museum.”

Director of the Okhtyrka City Museum of Local Lore Liudmyla Mishchenko wrote: “In the Brama Grodzka Museum, a professor from Australia, Tracy Island, shared her experience of preserving everyday heritage in her country. Australia does this on a daily basis.

Having the opportunity to record daily events in the context of historical events, we, researchers-historians, combine the history of the country in events, culture and people, the speaker emphasized. “I have written down a valuable experience in detail! I will share it with my museum colleagues!

The Role of Aesthetics in Everyday Heritage! This approach provides a better understanding of why an everyday object becomes a museum object. A whole range of issues emerges that give museum visitors an emotional experience, methods of creative arts, an attempt to relate to everyday life, which can be appreciated from the point of view of aesthetics. It awakens a sense of dignity. It reminds us that we want to find something atypical, and they (methods) may be different for different groups of people.

There are three approaches to studying everyday heritage in the context of free access to museum archives, people's biographies, etc.

To unite people, places, archives, and collections. In the city, it can be the history of a house, a street, or a person's biography. Interesting panel discussions. I shared my work experience! I borrowed the experience of my colleagues!

Introduction to the DECOPE project (Josefine Munch Rasmussen - Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Reseach), introduction to everyday heritage (Sian Jones - University of Stirling), a tour of the museum's halls on the theme of the Holocaust. For me, as a researcher of regional Holocaust history, the experience is incredible. It is valuable to compare my knowledge, developments, skills, and experience in working with traumatic experiences and the culture of memory with Polish colleagues.



I am very grateful to my colleague Olha Honchar and the Museum Crisis Center for their support in my research, for the opportunity to popularize the scientific and cultural heritage of Slobozhanshchyna and the hero city of Okhtyrka, for their sincerity in their relationship and for their concern for the fate of the Okhtyrka City Museum of Local Lore.”

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The leader of the research project “Destructive Exploitation and Care of Cultural Objects and Professional/Public Education for Sustainable Heritage Management (DECOPE)”, which will run from 2023 to 2025, is the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research NIKU/ In Spain, the project team is led by Ana Vico, Associate Professor of Business Economics and Director of the Master's Program in Art Market Management at the King Juan Carlos University in Madrid. The third research partner is the University of Stirling with a research team led by Professor of Heritage Sian Jones.