Title: The Museum as a Laboratory of Change Abstract: The article deals with the impact of temporary educational exhibitions in Polish national museums on the nature of the knowledge they produce, protect and disseminate. Analysed data were collected during a year-long, qualitative research study with the use of such tools as in-depth interviews, focus groups, research walks and desk analysis of documentation produced during the creation of the Power of the Museum exhibition at the National Museum in Krakow. The primary research question is how the museum’s ecology of knowledge (Rahder, 2020) reacts when the decision-making order is transformed and a new type of meta- exhibition is built. The article aims to describe the mechanisms that stabilize museum knowledge traditions when the environment in which they operate is changed internally and externally. Author: Pisarek, Adam Publication order reference: University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of Culture Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Poland, e-mail: adam.pisarek@us.edu.pl, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9872-364X Source: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, year: 2023, vol.: 11, number: 4,  pages: 5-20. Key words: museum’s ecology of knowledge, museum as a laboratory, temporary exhibitions Language: English online full-text PDF DOI: 10.46284/mkd.2023.11.4.1 Title: War in European Museum Narratives and Cultural Memory Abstract: The article examines how the war narrative is displayed in modern European museum exhibitions, particularly in light of new museology and cultural memory trends in Germany and Poland. The study recognises that the contested nature of cultural and historical contexts influences the process of representing cultural memory in museum narratives. It combines the theoretical approach of museology with specific museum practices. Using case studies from the Bundeswehr Museum of Military History, Dresden, Germany; the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation, Berlin, Germany; and the Museum of the Second World War, Gdansk, Poland, the author examines the impact of challenging issues centred on cultural memory of the war in museum exhibitions over recent decades. The study underlines the significance of innovative approaches to museum exhibitions that display the experience of war and contribute to social dialogue and sustainability. Authors: Verbytska, Polina Publication order reference: : Lviv Polytechnic National University, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of History, Museology and Cultural Heritage, 3 Mytropolyt Andrei Street, 79013 Lviv , Ukraine, e-mail: Polina.V.Verbytska@lpnu.ua, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3123-0768 Source: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, year: 2023, vol.: 11, number: 4,  pages: 21-43. Keywords: war, museum narrative, permanent exhibition, cultural memory, forced migration Language: English online full-text PDF DOI: 10.46284/mkd.2023.11.4.2 Title: The concept of small museums from an international and local perspective: starting points for further research in the Czech Republic Abstract: The study deals with the question, what is a small museum and what are its specifics compared to other museums. Based on available foreign and local sources, it summarizes the current state of research which is largely focused on searching for the consensus on how to clearly define this type of museums. The study is based on the published results of key research in the past twenty years, it outlines selected approaches to the characteristics of a small museum and summarizes its typical features. Analogously, it looks at the state of research in the Czech museum sphere, where the topic of small museums has been repeatedly opened, examined and debated from different perspectives of professional activities and professions in a small museum. The study raises the question of how to effectively build on this state of research and develop it further within the Czech Republic, where this type of museums seems to be insufficiently mapped so far. Author: Jagošová, Lucie Publication order reference: Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology and Museology, Arna Nováka 1, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic, e-mail: jagosova@phil.muni.cz, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3436-7404 Source: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, year: 2023, vol.: 11, number: 4,  pages: 45-58. Keywords: small museum; micromuseum; museology; museum pedagogy; museum education; museum exhibitions Language: English online full-text PDF DOI: 10.46284/mkd.2023.11.4.3 Title: Great Moravian jewellery and its presentation in exhibitions Abstract: Ever since the first pieces of Great Moravian jewellery were found in early medieval burial grounds, which began to be intensively and extensively explored mainly in Moravia after 1948, it was clear that these were not only elite goods related to the highest social class in Great Moravia of that time, but also exhibition objects that bear the hallmark of exclusivity. Their artistic beauty, the expensive material from which they were made, as well as the craftsmanship with which they were created, were and still are a sure guarantee for the exhibitor that they will interest the public in some way. The paper focuses mainly on large exhibition events, which from the 1960s presented Great Moravian jewellery not only to the Czech, but also to the foreign audience. At the same time, it briefly outlines the future, which is connected with presentation of these exceptional archaeological finds, and which is in the hands of the Moravian Museum in Brno. Authors: Valášková, Lucie Publication order reference: Moravian Museum, Centrum slovanské archeologie, Zelný trh 6, 659 37 Brno, Czech Republic, e-mail: lvalaskova@mzm.cz, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3076-5384 Source: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, year: 2023, vol.: 11, number: 4,  pages: 59-69. Keywords:  Great Moravian jewellery, elite goods, exhibition, Moravian Museum Language: English online full-text PDF DOI: 10.46284/mkd.2023.11.4.4 Title: Preparation and realization of compact touring exhibitions on the example of exhibition projects of the Masaryk University Abstract: The article focuses on the specifics of the preparation and realization of compact touring exhibition projects. In the introductory theoretical part, it deals with the issue of museum communication and museum presentation, their means, approaches and forms, on the basis of which several types of exhibition projects are distinguished. Special attention is paid to touring exhibitions, their specifics and possibilities in relation to the public. In the empirical part, the article contains several examples of the preparation and realization of compact touring exhibition projects, implemented in the field of Museology at the Masaryk University in Brno. Authors: Tišliar, Pavol Publication order reference: Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology and Museology, Arna Nováka 1, Brno 602 00, Czech Republic, e-mail: tisliar@phil.muni.cz, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0886-7499 Source: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, year: 2023, vol.: 11, number: 4,  pages: 71-91. Keywords:  museum presentation, compact touring exhibitions, museum suitcase, student exhibitions, Masaryk University in Brno Language: English online full-text PDF DOI: 10.46284/mkd.2023.11.4.5 Title: Exedrae as a tool of social visibility Abstract: The article is focused on the public presentation of (not only) influential persons – the aristocracy, high-ranking citizens (euergetes and benefactors) in ancient Greece in the period from the end of the 5th century BC to the 2nd century AD – through structures known as exedrae. These architectural features, located on sites that are part of the cultural heritage, can still be found in situ in the entire Eastern Mediterranean region. Presented will be case examples of exedrae and their connection to social presentation as well as the issue of the primary purpose of their construction. In conclusion, two cases of these type of structures and its fate will be mentioned in connection with its removal from the original findspot in effort to present it in a museum. Authors: Molnárová, Miriam Publication order reference: Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology and Museology, Arna Nováka 1, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic, e-mail: molnarova@phil.muni.cz, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3653-0586 Source: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, year: 2023, vol.: 11, number: 4,  pages: 93-107. Keywords: exedrae, scholae, social situation, euergetism, benefactorism, social visibility Language: English online full-text PDF DOI: 10.46284/mkd.2023.11.4.6