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Excerpt from László Boka’s editorial foreword:
“Leading European public collections (not only libraries, but museums and archives, and partly other cultural institutions) have been characterized in the last decade by an expanding approach, the imperative blurring of former institutional/genre boundaries, and have been pushed toward the so-called hybrid institutional existence by an ever increasing display, accessibility, as well as scientific exploration and digitization of the stored heritage items.
Anthropological research on the issue of cultural heritage and public property has already proved by the end of the first decade of the new millennium that these institutions were no longer merely collecting objects and documents, but that they have rather been focusing on interpreting them, so these leading (national, major) collections can be successfully displayed not as neutral spaces, but as a seamless chain of dialogues, prestigious events, accompanying performances, conferences and other community building events. ”