Research
Ever since Ola Cappelin founded Kiviks Museum in 1890, we have conducted research and documentation on current social issues. Originally, the local cultural heritage in and around the Kiviksbygden was mainly affected, but collaborations and initiatives with other areas were gradually expanded. Already in the 1910s, the first close contacts with the National Antiquities Office arose in research and documentation matters. Ola Cappelin wrote a number of books himself and is still regarded as a pioneer in genealogy and homeland research, but also dialect research.
Museum director Sten Andersson built up a close collaboration with several universities and research institutes during the 1960s-1990s, mainly in Sweden. Sten was in many respects a pioneer in Sweden, when already in the 1960s he saw it as an important task to integrate school, teaching and museum/archives in various collaborations. Therefore, research projects also arose where the students at Kivik's school got to learn more about scientific work and also meet researchers from different genres in archaeology, history and environmental science. The students had the opportunity to carry out research-based projects in collaboration with universities and institutes of higher education and based in Kivik's Museum and Archives, which was both pedagogically unique, both for schools and within the museum and archive industry. Sten won several prizes and awards for his work at the forefront, and in the 1980s he was one of the zealots behind the formation of IK, the Institute for Cultural Research, at Kivik. IK is today a global research institution.
Museum director Dafvid Hermansson has, during the 21st century, as lecturer in history, successively developed Kiviks Museum's research work and collaborations. Today, Kiviks Museum is Scandinavia's only museum inUNESCO Research Council Groupand Scandinavia's only museum accredited byUN Global Sustainability Network. Kiviks Museum conducts both its own research and collaborates with researchers, universities and research institutes in 30 countries worldwide in cultural heritage research with a focus on:
– resilience, sustainable tourism and cultural heritage
– social and existential sustainability and the role of cultural heritage
– gentrification
– historical and contemporary migration
- the impact of climate change on cultural heritage
– security and ethics around digitization and the digitization of cultural heritage in a troubled world
Kiviks Museum - a center for applied cultural heritage research
Working in this way together with several global networks strengthens our institution's work, competence and knowledge transfer. Through the various accreditations and with the knowledge tools that are made available to us via both the SDG Academy and UNESCO, we can strengthen our ongoing work with research, education and information about the sustainability goals in schools, associations, companies, organizations, to the museum and archive industry and to our visitors. Through the various research group networks in sustainability, tourism and cultural heritage, and that we simultaneously represent both the archive and museum industry nationally and internationally, Kiviks Museum functions as a gateway for sustainability issues within cultural heritage and an ambassador for the importance of cultural heritage for sustainable development. Kiviks Museum will concretely become a center for applied cultural heritage research with an experimental method as a basis.
Here you can read more about:
Storytelling circle in Kivik and surroundings
Lonely elderly in the local community
Experimental cultural heritage - Kivik