Darko Babic

Heritage management, realised foremost by varied heritage interpretation(s), is foremost multidisciplinary task. Contemporary understanding of the heritage management takes into account all relevant (i.e. site/county/country/region specific factors) be it social or economic beside essential preservation. It tends toward ensuring tangible (and intangible, or more precise indirect) benefits for local communities and by this toward development of the society in general. Critical heritage studies over the last few years significantly influenced perception of heritage, thus consequently the essence of heritage management and heritage interpretation. Stress on participative approach became crucial, where multi/poli-vocality is self-understandable. Surprisingly this practice could be easily tracked to early 1970s and the eco-museums movement which is quite revealing experience. Paper tends to demonstrate how practices of eco-museums could be interlinked with the very contemporary requests-needs for participative heritage interpretation and management approaches. Finally it will point out toward social responsible heritage management which could be recognised as sort of the request for very new heritage literacy.

Sedamdesete godine dvadesetog stoljeća kreirale su nov odnos muzeja i društva, ponajprije kroz formu eko-muzeja. U međuvremenu se društvo, kontekst u kojem muzeji djeluju, značajno promijenilo. Eko-muzeji i pokret nove muzeologije su, iako izvorno odgovarajući na potrebe ondašnjeg trenutka, svojim konceptom teritorija, baštine, identiteta i razvoja, te (lokalne) zajednice kao osnovnog nositelja procesa, anticipirali mnoga suvremena teorijska i praktična promišljanja. U međuvremenu su tradicionalni (klasični) muzeji preuzeli dio iskustva eko-muzeja dok su i sami eko-muzeji evoluirali i stvorili nove oblike pojavnosti. Namjera je rada kritički sagledati razvoj i inovacije eko-muzeja i nove muzeologije, te pokazati primjenljivost i upotrebljivost ovog koncepata u današnjim, promijenjenim društvenim okolnostima.