A Veszprém Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 24. (Veszprém, 2006)

Schleicher Vera: „Kakukktojás” tárgyak a Laczkó Dezső Múzeum Néprajzi Gyűjteményében

"STRANGE" OBJECTS IN THE ETHNOGRAPHY COLLECTION OF THE "LACZKÓ DEZSŐ" MUSEUM This paper is a further station of the analysis is going on in the Ethnographical Collection of the "Laczkó Dezső" Museum. For this once the group of the "strange objects" is examined, namely those pieces that cannot been interpreted in the context of a county collection. Altough every museum has exact conception of the main parameters and province of its collections, still enrichment often occurs in a passive way. Occasionally this phenomenom effects indifferent and consequently problematic objects in the registers and in the store-houses. This time the indifferrence of an object is defined only in a geographical sense, because analysing of the meaning of an object would postulate a certain kind of museological convention about defining "ethnographical" or "historical" objects. In geographical sense there are 883 "strange" objects in the studied collection (3 %). In the second part of the article a detailed list is annexed that presents these 883 pieces and their history, systemathized by a geographical respect (counties bordering on Veszprém County, Transdanubia, Hungary, Charpatian Basin, Europa, another continents). The presented objects may be divided into two main groups. In the first group fall the objects that had been made and/or used out of the border of the collection collection area of the "Laczkó Dezső" Museum, nevertheless they are important pieces of the collection (e.g. the dresses of a gipsy family that moved from the Partium into Veszprém or ceramics made in Hódmezővásárhely but used in a peasant house in Veszprém County). The other section is the group of totally indifferrent objects: these have not any relation with the local popular culture (e.g. musical instruments or weapons from Africa; archeological founds). 307