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Acknowledged and empowered visitors in socialist Croatia: a diachronic exploration

This paper is based on the results of a diachronic exploration of the attitudes towards museum visitors in Croatia. The introduction brings the interpretation of insufficient interest of museum visitors within the museological research area of Ivo Maroevi!. The reason for that is that museology has a long standing history of relying on information science in Croatia, and the fact that the use of the museological approach that originated in the Eastern European countries and the global informatisation process and structuralism as a theoretical framework within which museology was formed. Visitors were covertly introduced into the theoretical arena in 1999 as interpreters in a schematic presentation of semiosis of museum objects in the act of collecting1 . On the other hand, numerous examples can assert that museum practice acknowledged visitors long before that and in a much open way, even in the socialist period that lasted from 1945 to 1991. Museums' interest in empowering visitors was put on hold during the Croatian War for Independence due to the imperilled existence of heritage. However, it was reaffirmed in the first decade of the 21st century when it enjoyed a boom. We have interpreted it in light of the new social order which is based on making profit and achieving growth.

visitors; socialist Croatia; heritage

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