2017-04-27
Event organizer
Institut für Kunstwissenschaft und Historische Urbanistik, TU Berlin
University main building, TU Berlin
10623 Berlin
Germany
Annette Loeseke
conference
Rethinking Museums Politically
Start: 2017-05-11 01:00
End: 2017-05-12 00:00
Location: Institute for Art History, Architecture building &
Place: Berlin
Fee: free
The conference will discuss how museums might translate their museological legacy into the 21st century and retain socio-political relevance in an enforced dialogue with architectural symbols of political as well as corporate power in today's urban spaces.
Since its opening in 1830, Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Altes Museum has been located in Berlin's highly symbolic centre, defined by the royal City Palace, Cathedral and Armory. While the museum's performative architecture responds to its location, the current curatorial concept and display no longer reflect the original museological significance of the building.
Taking Berlin's Altes Museum as a case study, the conference seeks to reconsider the museum's transhistorical political role and ask how the museum might critically respond to contemporary political controversies about the reconstruction of a former royal/imperial City Palace considered to house the non-European Ethnological Museum and Asian Art Museum.
Programme
Thursday 11 May 2017
Since its opening in 1830, Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Altes Museum has been located in Berlin's highly symbolic centre, defined by the royal City Palace, Cathedral and Armory. While the museum's performative architecture responds to its location, the current curatorial concept and display no longer reflect the original museological significance of the building.
Taking Berlin's Altes Museum as a case study, the conference seeks to reconsider the museum's transhistorical political role and ask how the museum might critically respond to contemporary political controversies about the reconstruction of a former royal/imperial City Palace considered to house the non-European Ethnological Museum and Asian Art Museum.
Programme
Thursday 11 May 2017
- 18:00 Welcome Bénédicte Savoy, TU Berlin
- 18:15 Museums, Power, Knowledge
Tony Bennett, Western Sydney University - 19:00 Reception
Friday 12 May 2017
- 10:00 Welcome and Introduction
Annette Loeseke and Andrea Meyer - 10:15 From Schloss to 'Schloss': Whose museums?
Nikolaus Bernau, Architecture and museum historian, journalist, Berlin - 10:45 Personal Development as Political Principle for the Berlin Museums: Museum for All?
Elsa van Wezel, Institut für Museumsforschung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - 11:15 Museum Architecture and Location: The Legacy of Berlin's Altes Museum
Annette Loeseke, New York University Berlin - 12:00 Lunch break
- 13:30 Museum Architecture as "Truth Spot"? Materials and Memories
Paul Jones, University of Liverpool - 14:00 Design for Creative Lives
Suzanne MacLeod, University of Leicester, School of Museum Studies - 14:30 Coffee break
- 15:00 Exhibiting the Museum. Presenting the History of Berlin's Museum Island
Tom Duncan, Duncan McCauley, Berlin - 15:30 Panel-Discussion: Rethinking Museums Politically
Nikolaus Bernau, Tom Duncan, Paul Jones, Suzanne MacLeod, Elsa van Wezel - Moderated by Annette Loeseke and Andrea Meyer
Conference language is English.
Participation is free.
No registration required.
Participation is free.
No registration required.
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