Museum exhibit object biography

BIOGRAPHY: ALL LIVES OF (FORMER) MUSEUM OBJECTS

Marija Vasiljević

With "life history of things" approach, developed by archeologists and anthropologists, as museolo-gists and heritologists we can identify meaning transformations of the same thing, from its creating till today.

This "biography" approach suggests thing's unforeseeable semantic potential.

How to write an object biography

So, museum object is not just evidence of certain past, but it potentially testifies about all its pasts, i.e. realities. This premise is recognized as a starting point for insight and analysis of different memory cultures and its transformations through the thing's "life", and for developing a fusion between heritage theory and museology, memory culture and biographical approach to things.

We can identify presences and absences in collective memory and its ever changing interrelation, organized or spontaneous, with personal memory and