Musealization of the Present Age.The Transformation of the Present into History in Collection Strategies of Historical Museums

历史博物馆作为记忆机构，正在通过收集物质文化来建设文化传统。因此，它们为研究和陈述中使用的材料证据提供了经验基础。传统上，博物馆会保存过去的物品和疑似消失的物品。最近，随着博物馆将重点转向收集当代的物质文化，可以观察到视角的变化。也很明显，在展览中，除了对物品的真实性和文化意义的预期之外，公众意识到与他们自己的经历和时代的联系。这导致了博物馆工作的必然变化，这与当代学术历史中越来越多的对现在的取向相对应，其中讨论了时间视角以及存在作为未来历史的影响。通过对当代的感知，博物馆开始将当前的物质文化识别为代表潜在未来历史的视角下的收藏对象。为了做到这一点，他们提出了旨在将当代日常物品重组为文化记忆的概念。该项目旨在分析博物馆如何通过收集当代物品作为未来的文化和历史证据来“创造历史”。在这种背景下，出现了一些问题：博物馆如何应对收集现在的挑战？讨论了哪些主题以及如何确定这些主题？对当今S社会的历史意义，有哪些有影响的解读？收藏当代文物的评选标准是什么？对当代社会中的物品进行系统记录是受欢迎的，还是更确切地说，是以项目为导向的参与？当当代历史学家决定将物质文化纳入他们的研究项目时，他们能期待什么？博物馆如何帮助为对物质文化感兴趣的扩展史学提供物质证据？该项目旨在通过收集当代物质文化来理解历史的挪用。为此，将分析关于收藏当代和多样化收藏战略的辩论，采访馆长，并为提供经验基础和明确的概念，将评估收藏目录和检查收藏的物品。这项研究将在致力于从文化和社会的历史角度进行的博物馆进行。选择进行分析的机构分为三类：国家历史博物馆、地方历史博物馆和专业博物馆。该项目将涵盖从20世纪20年代到今天的当代收藏品发展。分析将当代历史和博物馆研究中提出的问题联系起来，通过辩论在其历史背景下的材料来源的建设，以及博物馆对当代作为未来历史的理解来发展。这项研究的结果将发表在专著上。

History museums as institutions of memory are building cultural tradition by collecting material culture. Thus, they provide the empirical basis of material evidence used in research and presentation. Traditionally, museums have preserved objects of the past and things that are suspected to vanish. Lately a change of perspectives can be observed as museums turn their focus on collecting the material culture of the present age as well. It also becomes apparent that in exhibitions, beyond expectations of the authenticity of objects and of cultural significance, the public is aware of links to their own experience and time. This causes an inevitable change of museum work which corresponds with an increasing orientation towards the present in academic contemporary history in which time perspectives and the influence of the presence as future history is discussed.Through the perception of the present age museums begin to identify current material culture as objects to be collected under the perspective of representing a potential future history. To do so, they develop conceptions that intend to restructure contemporary everyday objects into cultural memory.The project aims to analyse how museums "make history" by collecting contemporary objects as future cultural and historical evidence. In this context a number of questions arise: How do museums meet the challenges of collecting the present? Which topics are addressed and how are they identified? Which interpretations of the historical significance of today´s society are influential? What are the selection criteria of collecting the contemporary? Is a systematic documentation of objects in contemporary society favoured or rather a project-oriented involvement? What can historians of contemporary history expect when they decide to include material culture in their research projects? How can museums help to provide material evidence for an expanded historiography that is interested material culture?The project aims to understand the appropriation of history by collecting contemporary material culture. To do so, the debates on collecting the contemporary and the diverse collection strategies will be analysed, curators interviewed and, to provide an empirical basis and manifest notion, collection catalogues will be evaluated and the collected objects inspected. The research will be conducted in museums devoted to a historical perspective on culture and society. The institutions chosen to analyse fall into three categories: national history museums, local history museums, and specialised museums.The project will cover the development of contemporary collecting from the 1920s until today. The analysis links questions raised in contemporary history and in museum studies by debating the building of material sources within their historical context and the understanding that museums develop about the contemporary as future history. The results of this research will be published in a mongraph.