Israel

Excursion

Registration required!

What roles do museums play in a country, whose founding and history are inextricably linked with the biggest genocide and flight and immigration, whose birth was accompanied by political and military conflicts, and whose current everyday life is still characterised by violence and terror? In hardly any other country is the “musealisation” of one’s own national, social and cultural history such a big and responsible challenge as in Israel. In hardly any other country is the visualisation of the (de)construction of identity so controlled by educational institutions as it is there. And in hardly any other country is there such a struggle over contradictory views of history and so much space given to diametrically opposed narratives like in the museums in Israel. But how can national institutions actually contribute to solving the internal and external, political, social and religious problems? Can the responsible directors, curators and mediators really take constructive and multilateral action? And what chances of success does this multilateralism have? We will explore these questions on a five-day tour of Israeli museums, during visits to exhibitions and on sightseeing walks of the city, in conversations with creative artists, scholars and those responsible for museums as well as by examining relevant texts on museology and the theory of history.

Conception and design
Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Curator, Vienna (A)

Event management
Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Curator, Vienna (A)
Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen and Sophie Koller, both of the Museum Academy Joanneum, Graz (A)

Location
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv (IL)

Cost
450 €, reduced price 380 € (incl. admissions and public transport on-site)

Languages of the event
German and English

Institutions
Beit Lochamei haGeta’ot, Eretz Israel Museum, Israel Museum, Museum on the Seam, Palmach Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Umm alFahm Art Gallery

Registration and Information:
Museumsakademie Joanneum
Mariahilferstrasse 2-4, 8020 Graz
T +43 (0) 316/8017-9805, Fax -9808
museumsakademie@museum-joanneum.at