This is a series designed both to celebrate and to question what we do in museums and what museums do to us, and to ask what the future should hold for the museum and what the museum should hold for the future. We will explore the ways in which what museums do is enabled and limited by their history and the history of collecting, asking whether and how museums can use their collections to transcend time. We will explore the constraints placed on museums by national history and how they contest natural history. We will think about museums as installations and museums as laboratories. And we will ask how healthy is the pressure to make visitors love their experiences in museums. Have museums failed or succeeded if some people hate
SESSION 4: Is the curator a scientist or an artist? Sam Alberti (Royal College of Surgeons of. England/ Hunterian Museum) Mark Wallinger Chair: Liba T...
SESSION 4: Is the curator a scientist or an artist? Sam Alberti (Royal College of Surgeons of. England/ Hunterian Museum) Mark Wallinger Chair: Liba T...
SESSION 3: Does the museum have a natural history? a national history? Paul Smith (Oxford University Museum of Natural History) Martin Roth (V&A) Chai...
SESSION 3: Does the museum have a natural history? a national history? Paul Smith (Oxford University Museum of Natural History) Martin Roth (V&A) Chai...
SESSION 2: Should museum displays rejoice in being of their time, or aim to transcend time? Minna Moore Ede (National Gallery) Paul Greenhalgh (Sainsb...
SESSION 2: Should museum displays rejoice in being of their time, or aim to transcend time? Minna Moore Ede (National Gallery) Paul Greenhalgh (Sainsb...
SESSION 1: Subversive traditions? Does the current enthusiasm for the history of collecting and of the museum silence objects, or make them speak? Tim...
SESSION 1: Subversive traditions? Does the current enthusiasm for the history of collecting and of the museum silence objects, or make them speak? Tim...