Via Barbara Kirschenblatt Gimblett Museums of history face a particular challenge in societies that have experienced conflict and violence in recent memory and radical geopolitical and ideological change, not to mention socio-economic and technological challenges. Multiple and rival historical perspectives characterize the dynamics of public memory in these societies. DifferingContinue Reading
Via Guggenheim.org This month, the Guggenheim Museum is proud to donate 100 images of artworks to Wikipedia, including selections from the museum’s collection by Edgar Degas, Paul Klee, and Vincent van Gogh. Join us at the Guggenheim to add information about these artworks and artists to Wikipedia, the world’s largestContinue Reading
Laurie Ingram, Material And Visual Culture, UCL Sawdust and Threads is a residency and exhibitions programms that takes de-accessioned museum objects as its material. Artist Caroline Wright has undertaken residencies at three different museum collections and selected objects that have been de-accessioned. For Sawdust and Threads, Caroline has madeContinue Reading
Since its formation in 1994, the Material Culture Caucus of the American Studies Association (ASA) has bridged the gap between university-based and museum-based scholars to promote the study of material culture in American Studies programs. To celebrate its twentieth birthday, the Caucus sponsored a workshop on Friday November 7, 2014, duringContinue Reading
The Geffrye Museum would like to share details of the Histories of Home Subject Specialist Network Call For Papers for 7th Annual Conference Homes Under Pressure. Please forward to any staff and students. This conference will explore how museums and researchers can document homes under pressure across the world in both contemporary and historicalContinue Reading
The Material Culture Caucus of the American Studies Association (ASA) announces the following session at the Association’s Annual Meeting, “The Fun and the Fury: New Dialectics of Pleasure and Pain In the Post-American Century,” 6-9 November 2014, Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, CA USA Material Culture Caucus Session: Twenty Years, TwentyContinue Reading
Diana Young, University of Queensland Art Museum The University of Queensland Director Diana Young writes… Since 2009 the Anthropology Museum has again had a rolling exhibition program both to enable more of its significant 26,000 item collection to be seen, to present academic research in ways that engages with aContinue Reading
Jes Fernie, Independent Curator, History Rising Project, We’d like you to send us your photos of museum display structures from across the world. These could be from your local museum, trips abroad or from your academic research. We are interested in vitrines, plinths, shelves and general display mechanisms, rather thanContinue Reading
Ulrike Bessel, Curatorial Assistant, Royal Engineers Museum, Library and Archive A new photography exhibition, open from 22nd October 2013 – 30th May 2014 at the Royal Engineers Museum, Library and Archive in Gillingham, Kent, will show a different side of the Museum’s collection. Supported using public funding by Arts CouncilContinue Reading
17th Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality 26 – 29 June 2013, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) http://irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de/travelandmuseums.html Submission deadline is February 28, 2013. The formation of the modern world was accompanied by a fundamental reshaping of culture itself: its agents, values, and symbols, its everyday practice and high culture rituals.Continue Reading
Pitt Rivers Museum & Keble College University of Oxford, United Kingdom 19th – 21st July 2013 Ethnographic museums have a long and distinguished history but they have also been the subject of criticism and complaint. During the second half of the twentieth century they therefore underwent something of an identityContinue Reading