Establishment of the Ethnographic museum of Istria in the context of postwar politics and museum practices

Članak se fokusira na proces osnivanja Etnografskog muzeja Istre šezdesetih godina 20. stoljeća. Osnivanje muzeja dijelom je povezano s činjenicom da je to vrijeme nestajanja predmeta tradicijske kulture sa sela zbog ubrzane industrijalizacije i sve većeg odlaska ljudi u gradove što dovodi do potrebe sakupljanja i izlaganja predmeta u muzejima. No, prikupljanje predmeta, stvaranje zbirki i naposljetku osnivanje Etnografskog muzeja Istre u uskoj je povezanosti i s političkom situacijom nakon Drugoga svjetskog rata, odnosno s procesom utvrđivanja granice između Italije i Hrvatske odnosno Jugoslavije u Istri. Upravo je kroz zapisnike sjednica Društva za povijest i kulturna pitanja Istre – podružnice Pazin vidljiv utjecaj struke, ali i politike na odluku o osnivanju Etnografskog muzeja Istre u Pazinu 1962. godine. Osim toga, u članku je pokazano i da je prostor Kaštela služio za stanovanje i bio dio obiteljskih povijesti stanovnika Pazina koji su živjeli u Kaštelu ili u okolici.The article focuses on the process of establishment of the Ethnographic Museum of Istria in the nineteen-sixties. The establishment of the Museum is partly associated with the fact that the period in question was distinguished by the disappearance of traditional culture objects from rural areas due to accelerated industrial development and greater migration of the population to towns. This brought about the need to collect and display objects in a museum. However, the collection of objects, the creation of collections and, eventually, the foundation of the Ethnographic Museum of Istria were also closely linked with the political situation after the Second World War and the process of definition of the border between Italy and Croatia/Yugoslavia in Istria. The minutes of the meetings of the Society for Istrian History and Culture (Pazin Branch) show the influence of museum professionals, but also of politicians, on the foundation of the Ethnographic Museum of Istria in Pazin in 1962. Moreover,the article also shows that the Kaštel (Pazin Castle) was also used for residential purposes and constituted a part of the family history of the citizens of Pazin who lived in Kaštel or the surroundings