ABSTRACT Museums today are confronted by the demands of finding a path towards the future that will engage visitors of all ages and origins without sidestepping current debate or glossing over aspects of ‘hard history’ implicit in their local or national settings. This is especially true of rural life museums that often deal with village life and agriculture while now catering mainly to city-dwellers. With its ‘Theatre of Agriculture’ set in the programme of ‘Living in the 21st Century’, the Ecomuseum of Alsace is working out new ways to link its collections, its buildings and land, its many skills-holders, and its interpretation practices, to an over-arching strategy bridging Alsatian tradition and present-day diversity. This paper explores the strategies adopted by the museum in navigating these tensions.

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回到未来。阿尔萨斯博物馆中的民间生活和文化多样性

如今，抽象博物馆面临着寻找通往未来的道路的需求，这些道路将吸引所有年龄和起源的游客，而又不回避目前的辩论或掩盖其本地或国家环境中隐含的“艰难历史”的各个方面。对于乡村生活博物馆来说尤其如此，这些博物馆经常处理乡村生活和农业问题，而现在主要迎合城市居民。通过“ 21世纪的生活”计划中设置的“农业剧院”，阿尔萨斯市博物馆正在研究将其馆藏，建筑物和土地，许多技能持有者及其解释方法联系起来的新方法，融合了阿尔萨斯传统和当今多样性的总体战略。本文探讨了博物馆在应对这些紧张局势时采取的策略。