Marika Österlund
mamaos@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1190-5249 |
Museums; museum collections; collection policy; museum ethics; historical fairness
I graduated as a Master of Arts, majoring in Cultural Heritage Studies in 2021 from University of Turku. In my master's thesis I studied the formation of Finnish museum collections and their ethics, and tentatively defined the theory of historical fairness and methodology of two-way ethical construction of museum collections.
Before my PhD studies, I worked in museum industry, where I gained experience and knowledge for example in museum cataloquing and other work in museum collections, as a museum guide and in researching and designing exhibitions.
I work on my doctoral dissertation full time, with a three year grant from Finnish Cultural Foundation.
I’m researching multi-time semiotic meanings in Finnish museum collections, and also create a new theory of historical fairness and method of two-way ethical construction of museum collections. My research problems concentrates on ethics and morality, questions about "Whose history?" and acceptance of past values.
2024: Teacher in the course Presence of Heritage: Discussions and Practices.
- Näyttelyvierailu: Kruunun väkeä Turun linnassa (2025) Österlund, Marika
(E1 Popularised article) - Lähikuva 2-3/2024 "Sota" (2024)
- Lähikuva
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific journal’s special issue) - Merkkejä ja merkityksiä museoesineissä: museokokoelmien semioottisten prosessien ymmärtämisen ja reilujen museokokoelmien jäljillä (2024) Österlund, Marika
(E1 Popularised blog post) - Sotia medioiden välittämänä (2024)
- Lähikuva
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Tieteellisen julkaisun toimitustyö ensikertalaisen silmin (2024) Österlund, Marika
(E1 Popularised blog post) - Museokokoelmien muotoutuminen kolmen eettisen kysymyksen valossa: Esimerkkinä 1600-luvun esineet ja arkeologiset löydöt (2021) Österlund, Marika
(G2 Master’s thesis, polytechnic Master’s thesis)