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Margit Berner Curator of the Cast Collection and research associate Anthropology, Natural History Museum Vienna (AT)
Margit Delefant Deputy Head of the Regional Didactics Centre for Biology and Environmental Studies Styria, University of Graz (AT)
Hannes Geisser Director of the Thurgau Nature Museum, Frauenfeld (CH)
Reinhard Golebiowski Head of Exhibition & Education Department, Natural History Museum Vienna (AT)
Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen Head of the Joanneum Museum Academy, Graz (AT)
Anita Hermannstädter Head of PAN - Perspectives on Nature, Department of Science Communication and Knowledge Research, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (DE)
Peter Jann Director of Naturama Aargau, Aarau (CH)
Christian Köberl Director General and Scientific Managing Director Natural History Museum Vienna (AT)
Susanne Köstering Managing Director Museumsverband des Landes Brandenburg e.V., Potsdam (DE)
Christian Kropf Head of Invertebrate Division, Natural History Museum of the Burgergemeinde Bern (CH)
Bernd Moser Head of the Department of Geosciences, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz (AT)
Wolfgang Paill Head of the Department of Biosciences, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz (AT)
Peter Pakesch Director Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz (AT)
Anne Marie Rahn Project Manager ‘Experiencing Nature Together - Intercultural Exchange4 in Frankfurt’ Senckenberg Nature Museum, Frankfurt am Main (D)
Rita Schlamberger Biologist and commercial director ScienceVision Filmproduktions GmbH, Graz (A)
Ulrike Strottrop Head of the Geology/Natural History Department, Ruhr Museum, Essen (DE)
Gerhard Tarmann Curator of Natural Science Collections, Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck (AT)
Klaus Taschwer Science Editor, daily newspaper Der Standard, Vienna (AT)
Nature museums: what’s the point?
On the social role of an institution
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Date
27.03. - 28.03.2014
Location
Museumsakademie Joanneum, Joanneumsviertelplatz
Meeting point
Joanneumsviertel, Graz (AT)
Costs
€ 100, reduced fee € 70 (The reduced fee is available to students, trainees, unemployed people, and employees of this year’s cooperation partners.)
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Event
Nature museums have always been underrepresented in museological debates. And yet, the bulk of museum objects worldwide are natural objects and the traditional significance of this type of museum for both research and society is enormous. We would like to focus on the latter and, taking the wide variety of nature museums into consideration, examine the applicability of the social roles associated with museums in general to museums of natural history: What role does the nature museum play as an archive of things and a site of comparison? How important is it currently as a centre of research and education? Do nature museums play a role as a national/regional storehouse of memories and in the negotiation of identities? Many relevant questions of the present touch on the environmental and natural sciences: Is the nature museum suited as a site of the critical public and a place for exchanging new ideas? We will try to get an idea of the current situation against the background of the history of the institution.
In cooperation with
the Natural History Museum of the Universal Museum Joanneum
