Heritage Without Heirs: The German Legacy in Serbia. The Case of the Museum of Danube Swabians

dc.contributor.author	Giergiel, Sabina
dc.contributor.author	Taczyńska, Katarzyna
dc.date.accessioned	2024-02-11T10:47:46Z
dc.date.available	2024-02-11T10:47:46Z
dc.date.issued	2024
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12528/1982
dc.description.abstract	This article focuses on the first historical museum in Serbia, established in Sombor in 2019 (the Museum of the Danube Swabians), with an exhibition devoted to the presence of Germans in Vojvodina. The artefacts presented at the exhibition, left behind by the Germans who used to live in Vojvodina, have been recognised as part of Serbia’s difficult heritage (the term coined by Sharon Macdonald). The article analyses the permanent exhibition and the museum’s efforts to involve the local residents in creating said exhibition. The article also asks whether the museum in Sombor can shape the collective identity of Serbs and undermine its ethno-nationalist character.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	The research presented in this article was supported by the Priority Research Area (Heritage) under the Strategic Programme Excellence Initiative at Jagiellonian University, ‘Memory Rivalry in a Multi-Ethnic Society. The Case of Serbia’, grant no. U1U/P01/NO/02.64.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	Serbia	en
dc.subject	Danube Swabians	en
dc.subject	Germans	en
dc.subject	Sombor	en
dc.subject	museum	en
dc.subject	difficult heritage	en
dc.title	Heritage Without Heirs: The German Legacy in Serbia. The Case of the Museum of Danube Swabians	en
dc.type	Article	en