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Don’t lose the thread

On the future of textile museums and collections

26.03. - 27.03.2015

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Date

26.03. - 27.03.2015

Location

Museumsakademie Joanneum

Meeting point

St. Gallen (CH)

Costs

180 €, reduced price 150 € (The reduced fee is available to students, trainees, unemployed people, and employees of this year’s cooperation partners.)

External registration

Please register via e-mail.

 

Contact

+43-664/8017-9537

museumsakademie@museum-joanneum.at

 

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About the
Event

A good number of European textile museums were established with a clear regional focus, and many of them specialise in individual aspects of historical textile production: in the extraction and preparation of raw materials, the production of yarns and fabrics, specific materials and techniques or the development of textile goods in the history of fashion. Hardly any museum could hold the sheer wealth of contexts associated with this topic, ranging from socio-economic factors to matters concerning the history of technology and culture. This event centres on the question of how this specific type of museum and its collections can continue to develop against the background of, to some extent, completely new conditions: How can a connection be made between historical looms and current technological and economic developments in the textile industry? Or between swatches and sample collections and the creative and cultural phenomena of today's world? What socially relevant questions are tied up with velvet and silk? And what might tomorrow's viable approaches to collecting look like?


In cooperation with
the Textilmuseum St. Gallen and the netzwerk modetextil e.V.

With
Rudolf Baer President Saurer Museum, Arbon (CH)
Heidi Eisenhut Head of the Cantonal Library, Trogen (CH)
Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen Director of the Joanneum Museum Academy, Graz (AT)
Barbara Karl Curator Collection Textiles and Carpets Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (AT)
Josef Kurz Deputy Director of the Hohenstein Institute, Bönningheim (DE)
Tina Moor Head of the Textile Design programme, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (CH)
Karl Borromäus Murr Director of the Augsburg State Textile and Industrial Museum (DE)
Annette Paetz called Schieck Director of the German Textile Museum Krefeld (DE)
Mark Starmanns Fair Fashion Network, Zurich (CH)
Hermann Josef Stenkamp Director TextilWerk Bocholt, LWL Industrial Museum, Bocholt (DE) 
Errol van de Werdt Director TextielMuseum Tilburg (NL) 

 

Organisers 
Michael Fehr Managing Director of the Werkbundarchiv – Museum of Things, Berlin (DE)
Michaela Reichel Director Textile Museum St. Gallen (CH)

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