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的机构，通过收集物质文化，构筑文化传统。因此，它们为研究和陈述中使用的物质证据提供了经验基础。传统上，博物馆保存了过去的物品和被怀疑消失的东西。最近，随着博物馆将重点转向收集当今时代的物质文化，可以观察到观点的变化。很明显，在展览中，除了对物品真实性和文化意义的期望之外，公众还意识到与他们自己的经历和时间的联系。这导致了博物馆工作的不可避免的变化，这与学术当代历史中对现在的日益倾向相对应，在这种倾向中，时间视角和存在作为未来历史的影响被讨论。通过对当下时代的感知，博物馆开始在代表潜在未来历史的视角下，将当下的物质文化识别为可收藏的对象。为此，他们提出了一些概念，打算将当代日常物品重组为文化记忆。该项目旨在分析博物馆如何通过收集当代物品作为未来文化和历史证据来“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？对当今社会历史意义的哪些解释是有影响力的？收藏当代艺术品的选择标准是什么？是对当代社会物品的系统记录更受青睐，还是更偏向于项目导向的参与？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了解历史的挪用。为此，将分析关于收集当代和各种收集策略的辩论，采访策展人，并将评估收集目录和检查收集的物品，以提供经验基础和明确的概念。该研究将在专门研究文化和社会历史视角的博物馆进行。被选择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年代至今的当代收藏的发展。该分析通过在其历史背景下讨论材料来源的建设以及博物馆将当代发展为未来历史的理解，将当代史和博物馆研究中提出的问题联系起来。这项研究的结果将发表在一篇专题论文中。

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.