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Resumé

The process of moving objects or belongings

from one place to another very often implies

the necessity of selection. This article deals

with two very different situations of moving.

The first one concerns the complete removal

of objects from the Ethnographic Collection

during the rebuilding of the National

Museum in Copenhagen in the early 1990’s

and the subsequent reorganisation

of them in

the new permanent exhibitions. The second

situation is an ordinary change of address.

In the museum situation, the necessity

of selection did not occur until decisions

were made as to which objects were to be

displayed in order to reflect cultural themes

of the region in question. In the situation

of the change of address, the selecting

process started immediately. Because of the

representative and communicative potentials

of objects, considerations of identity usually

accompanied the choices, whether, as in

the first case, the identity of the objects

concerned a cultural universe, or, as in the

second case, was connected with a person.