From church to museum and back again: The de-sacralization and re-sacralization of Kinnarumma's old wooden church

In the small village of Kinnarumma in western Sweden an old wooden church was replaced by a new church building in the early twentieth century. The old church was de-sacralized by being moved to an open-air museum in Borås and used there for exhibitions and the storage of museum objects. The need fo...

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Main Author: Andersson, Erik J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 2023
In: Approaching religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Pages: 106-115
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Borås / Church building / Profanation / Secularization / Museums / Cultural heritage / Kirmess / Sacralization / History 1900-1970
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
CE Christian art
CH Christianity and Society
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia
Further subjects:B desacralization
B wooden churches in Sweden
B resacralization
B Church History
B Religious Heritage
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Summary:In the small village of Kinnarumma in western Sweden an old wooden church was replaced by a new church building in the early twentieth century. The old church was de-sacralized by being moved to an open-air museum in Borås and used there for exhibitions and the storage of museum objects. The need for more church premises in the city led to the re-sacralization of the old church in 1930. The transition of Kinnarumma’s old wooden church to museum object, its museumification, was an expression of change in religious heritage, and its re-sacralization expressed an unchanged part of the same heritage.
ISSN:1799-3121
Contains:Enthalten in: Approaching religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.30664/ar.126742