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The Encyclopaedia of Silesia

through an encyclopaedia. This concept represents a critical reaction to the previous exhibitions of 1955 and 1981, which attempted to gain a ‘scientific’ view of the Silesian, and Ostrava, region through the application of the principles of chronological development and the delineation of specialist fields.

 

This new concept is based on an anthropological approach. In contrast to scientific (specialist) constructs (e.g. ethnography, archaeology and the history of art), it presents the viewer with an integrated concept of the environment and their perception of it. The display thus presents basic types of settlement (keywords: town and village), touches on manufacturing and consumer activity related to the riches of the land (keywords: slate, ceramics, mining, textiles, glass, landscape, forest), illustrates the ideas associated with human life and death (keywords: allegory, memory, death), addresses the idea of art as the highest expression of culture and spiritual traditions, both with reference to specific regional manifestations (keywords: church, organ). Culture is perceived as a component of human communication (keywords: language, theatre) and in the context of civilisational standards (keywords: roads, trade, housing). The exhibition also deals with concepts related to an awareness of history and its regional specificity (keywords: Silesia, peace).

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