Understanding, revealing, discovering

Research in museums

13.06. - 14.06.2013

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Date

13.06. - 14.06.2013

Location

Museumsakademie Joanneum, Wien

Meeting point

Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Vienna (AT)

Costs

The event is sponsored by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research and is thus free of charge for participants.

External registration

Please register via e-mail.

 

Contact
+43-664/8017-9537
museumsakademie@museum-joanneum.at

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About the
Event

In 2008, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research (bmwf) started the forMuse – Research in Museums programme and thus, for the first time, created a funding instrument for museum research projects. We would like to take this programme, which is currently in its final phase, as an opportunity to take a closer look at the overall picture of research in Austrian museums. Together with representatives from politics and administration, museums and associations, as well as universities and research institutions we will examine the key players, dimensions, and significance of Austrian museum research and try to identify central themes, concepts, and cooperation models in comparison with the rest of Europe. Against the backdrop of a connection between science, collection development, and the objectives of exhibitions, a connection that has shaped the history of the museum, one of the focuses of this workshop will be the relationship of research, collecting, and exhibiting today and the possible consequences of a museum without science and research for the future of collections and the institution in general.


With
Heidi Amrein Head of Collections & Documentation, National Museum Zurich (CH)
Christoph Bazil Head of the Department for Restitution Affairs, BMUKK, Vienna (AT)
Roger Fayet Director of the Swiss Institute for Art Research Zurich, President ICOM Switzerland (CH)
Nora Fischer Project member of the forMuse project of the Picture Gallery, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (AT)
Ulrich Großmann Director General of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg (GER)
Christa Hofmann Head of the Institute for Restoration, Austrian National Library, Vienna (AT)
Katrin Janis Head of Restoration Centre, Bavarian Palace Administration, Munich (GER)
Christian Klösch Head of Provenance Research Department, Vienna Museum of Technology (AT)
Eva Kreissl Curator Folk Life Museum, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz (AT)
Jani Kuhnt-Saptodewo Head of the Insular Southeast Asia Collection, Museum of Ethnology Vienna (AT)
Maria-Katharina Lang Research Associate, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (AT)
Manuela Laubenberger Curator of the Collection of Classical Antiquities, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (AT)
Monika Maruska Scientific project supervisor, Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Vienna (AT)
Wolfgang Muchitsch President of the Austrian Museums Association and Director of the Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz (AT)
Bernhard Palme Director of the Papyrus Collection, Austrian National Library and Professor of Ancient History and Papyrology at the University of Vienna (AT)
Wilfried Seipel President ICOM Austria, Vienna (AT)
Monika Sommer Curator Vienna Museum and schnitt. Exhibition Theory & Practice Vienna (AT)
Christian Stadelmann Curator of the Everyday Life & Environment Collection, Technisches Museum Wien (AT)
Nora Sternfeld ecm master programme for exhibition theory and practice and Aalto University Helsinki (AT/FI)
Maria Teschler-Nikola Director of the Anthropology Department, Natural History Museum Vienna (AT)
Helmuth Trischler Head of Research, Deutsches Museum, Munich (GER)
Heidemarie Uhl Research Associate, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (AT)
Beatrix Vreca Director, Museum im Alten Zeughaus, Bad Radkersburg (AT)
Adelheid Wessler Funding Officer ‘Research in Museums’, Volkswagen Foundation, Hanover (GER)

Conception and design
Ursula Brustmann Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Vienna (AT)
Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen Museum Academy Joanneum, Graz (AT)