Does the Museum Just Preserve the Museum?

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

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Session 5: Maurice Davies

January 5, 2015 • 93 mins

SESSION 5: Is curation about the objects or the audience? Maurice Davies (The Museum Consultancy / King’s College London) Chair: Robin Osborne

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Session 4: Sam Alberti and Mark Wallinger (Discussion)

January 5, 2015 • 54 mins

SESSION 4: Is the curator a scientist or an artist? Sam Alberti (Royal College of Surgeons of. England/ Hunterian Museum) Mark Wallinger Chair: Liba Taub

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Session 4: Sam Alberti and Mark Wallinger

January 5, 2015 • 63 mins

SESSION 4: Is the curator a scientist or an artist? Sam Alberti (Royal College of Surgeons of. England/ Hunterian Museum) Mark Wallinger Chair: Liba Taub

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Session 3: Paul Smith and Martin Roth (Discussion)

January 5, 2015 • 61 mins

SESSION 3: Does the museum have a natural history? a national history? Paul Smith (Oxford University Museum of Natural History) Martin Roth (V&A) Chair: Liz Hide

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Session 3: Paul Smith and Martin Roth

January 5, 2015 • 52 mins

SESSION 3: Does the museum have a natural history? a national history? Paul Smith (Oxford University Museum of Natural History) Martin Roth (V&A) Chair: Liz Hide

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Session 2: Minna Moore Ede and Paul Greenhalgh (Discussion)

January 5, 2015 • 61 mins

SESSION 2: Should museum displays rejoice in being of their time, or aim to transcend time? Minna Moore Ede (National Gallery) Paul Greenhalgh (Sainsbury Centre) Chair: Tim Knox

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Session 2: Minna Moore Ede and Paul Greenhalgh

January 5, 2015 • 63 mins

SESSION 2: Should museum displays rejoice in being of their time, or aim to transcend time? Minna Moore Ede (National Gallery) Paul Greenhalgh (Sainsbury Centre) Chair: Tim Knox

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Session 1: Tim Knox and Alexander Sturgis (Discussion)

January 5, 2015 • 64 mins

SESSION 1: Subversive traditions? Does the current enthusiasm for the history of collecting and of the museum silence objects, or make them speak? Tim Knox (Fitzwilliam Museum) Alexander Sturgis (Ashmolean Museum) Chair: Caroline Vout

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Session 1: Tim Knox and Alexander Sturgis

January 5, 2015 • 61 mins

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