European National Museums: Making Communities and Negotiating Conflicts

  • When: Back to Calendar » January 25, 2012 @ 13:00 - 18:00
    Where: Brussels, Belgium
    CINQUANTENAIRE MUSEUM - ROYAL MUSEUMS FOR ART AND HISTORY
    Kmkg - Jubelparkmuseum,Parc du Cinquantenaire 10,B-1000 City of Brussels
    Belgium
    Contact: Bodil Axelsson
    [email protected]
    Categories:
    Debate
    Tags: www.eunamus.eu

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    Organizer: EuNaMus_ European National Museums: Identity Politics, te Uses of the Past and the European Citizen
    Deadline for Applications: 15.01.12
    Participant’s Profile: Research Project
    Website: http://www.eunamus.eu/firstpage/brussel_event.html
    Financial Support: None
    Description:

    Culture and its institutions have been casted as key forces for integration and social cohesion in old nation-states as well as in more recent political entities such as the European Union. One of Europe’s most enduring institutions is the museum and today there is an increased interest among social elites as well as citizens to create new museums, especially history museums. At the same time existing museums struggle with how to approach contemporary cultural diversity, claims for restitutions, and economic restraints.

    This event brings together researchers, museum professionals and policy makers to discuss findings from two research areas in the project EuNaMus – European National Museums: Identity Politics, the Uses of the Past and the European Citizen. Including a panel on the creation of new history museums, the aim is to discuss the challenges and negotiations in terms of collections, communities and citizenship that arise when polities create new museums.

    All over Europe, the making of new history museums brings to the fore questions as to which stories and which objects should be put on display, for what audiences and with what results and future possibilities.