| dc.description.abstract | Abstract: The article analyses the new permanent exhibition in the composer
Wolfgang A. Mozart’s apartment in Vienna, opened in 2006, from the curator’s
perspective. The exhibition presents an approach to biographical display in which
the exhibited person becomes part of a multifaceted web of contexts, and the article
argues for the active deployment of the polysemic character of objects as a means of
grasping the complexity of a person’s biography. Presenting a concept for the Mozart
exhibition that merges semiotic and cultural theories with the materiality of the
objects on display, the article contributes to the discussion as to what constitutes
authenticity in museum exhibits, and in particular in memorial spaces, and discusses
alternative approaches to the traditional predominance in display of original
objects in biographical exhibitions. Moreover, it argues for the productivity of going
beyond dichotomies between theoretical and applied museology.
Key words: Memorial rooms, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, biographical exhibition,
exhibition analysis, theoretical and applied museology, authenticity,
cultural heritage. | nb_NO |
