MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES HISTORY GROUP
Past and Present: negotiating museum and gallery history
An international symposium, 7-8 September 2006
Call for papers
The Museums and Galleries History Group will hold its next
symposium at Newcastle University in September 2006 on the
theme negotiating museum and gallery history. This is a chance
to review the nature, roles and problems of museum and gallery
history. Papers relating to the following themes are invited:
-- Histories, trends and critiques of museum and gallery
historiography;
-- uses of museum and gallery historiography
-- media representations of museum and gallery history;
attempts to link contemporary museological concerns (such as
access, inclusion, diversity, restitution etc.) to historical
precedents;
-- how museums and galleries today work with (or against) their
historic identities, buildings, collections, displays and the
historical paradigms of knowledge, culture and society inherent
within them;
-- the conservation, restoration, renovation and extension of
historic museum and gallery buildings
-- the development, management and use of archival collections
relating to museum and gallery history
One-page abstracts are invited for papers on the above topics,
which should involve new research. Please also include a brief
personal statement, with full contact information and a tentative
assessment of audiovisual requirements for your presentation.
The deadline for abstract submission is Friday 25 November
2005. Abstracts should be sent to Isobel Siddons by post
(ALM London, Cloister Court, 22-26 Farringdon Lane,
London EC1R 3AJ) or as e-mail attachments to
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The Museums and Galleries History Group provides a platform
for debate and contact among all those who seek to understand
museums and galleries from historical and theoretical
perspectives. The interests represented are wide-ranging,
interdisciplinary and international and the group also acts as a
forum for considerations of the place of museum history within
academic discourse and its importance for current museum
practice.
Dr Sam Alberti
Lecturer in Art Gallery and Museum Studies and
Research Fellow at the Manchester Museum
The Manchester Museum, Oxford Road
MANCHESTER M13 9PL
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