Abstract:
Title: Casting as a scientific and popular object: the case of the Dijon archaeological museum
The recent dynamics of research around castings and gypsothèques has enabled the study of a corpus within the Archaeological Museum of Dijon through an academic work. It highlights the role played by castings in the mission of the Commission des Antiquités de Côte-d'Or: the dissemination of discoveries of major sites in the territory and the development of archaeological methods such as typochronology. Mouldings are thus the witnesses of network exchanges and emulations between the Antiquaries, their correspondents and the archaeological museums, such as the Musée d’archéologie nationale and its moulding workshop. Substituting an original, the moulds quickly build up the memory of altered or disappeared monuments. Expanded to facsimiles and present among museographies and mediation tools, they are now pedagogical tools facilitating the encounter between the archaeological artefact and an ever expanding public.
Keywords: Archaeology, cast, academies, collections.