İDEALKENT

Yazarlar: Ayşe Nur ŞENEL FİDANGENÇ

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Anahtar Kelimeler:City museums,Local preservation,Local administrations,Identity,History-writing,Memory,Exhibiting

Özet: With the acceleration of globalization in the late 20th century, the nation states begin to decline and the cities become more visible in the global scene. To participate in the global market, governments promote city branding in global and local competition; therefore, local values are seen as the input of this competition. Therefore, the values which are “local” and what make a city “the city” began to be emphasized; or, to be produced. Beginning from the 1990’s, all over the world, the city museums emerge with this motivation. In Turkey, city museums began to show up at the beginning of 2000s, but the foundations of that initiative laid in 1990s. With the effect of globalization, throughout the world the localism gains more importance and it affected the historic preservation approaches. In Turkey the atmosphere of the 1990s led the establishment of non-governmental organizations, aiming to develop historical consciousness in society, preserve the local historical and cultural values. But I may claim the basic motivation is the local administrations; to establish a city museum defined as one of the missions of the municipalities, which led the city museums become widespread in Turkey. Up to now, 50 city museums are established and 60 are proceeding in different cities and towns in Turkey. In this article 50 museums were studied as an inventory and the commonalities and different features of the museums are reviewed. This inventory is composed of the discourse of the museums, official discourse of local administration, works of non-governmental organizations and academic research. Among these discourses the relation between the local preservation in Turkey and the city museums is discussed.

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