Heroes behind glass

On the future of single-individual museums

07.05. - 08.05.2015

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Date

07.05. - 08.05.2015

Location

Museumsakademie Joanneum

Meeting point

Vienna (AT)

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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Event

Musicians, artists and scientists, authors, rulers/politicians and revolutionaries: The places where the predominantly male geniuses and heroes lived and worked have been left as they were at the time, and all across the country they together with their legacy have been turned into museums. Freezing a place in time or re-establishing it as a monument and museum has always been a way of ensuring that a particular person remains in the public’s mind and memory. To this today, it still offers the possibility of preserving personal legacies (as relics) for posterity, research and tourism. We will examine the history and characteristics of representative institutions in this field and will consider what future these heroes behind glass might have: Are these places capable of further development, and what other identities, from pilgrimage sites to research centres, are available to these institutions? What concept and design approaches do new developments follow? How much potential does the personalization of history have for communicating with audiences? And what happens if not only the presentations become outdated, but the individuals themselves are nearly forgotten, and when their achievements are re-interpreted in this new time, they no longer seem as important as they once were?

In cooperation
with the Wienbibliothek im Rathaus

Further information

An event as part of the Museum tomorrow series.

With
Christian Bauer Curator, Egon Schiele Museum, Tulln and desig. Director of Galerie Niederösterreich (AT)
Isabelle Blanc toikoi_erzählende räume, design and curatorial support, Egon Schiele Birthplace, Tulln (AT)
Barbara Boisits Deputy Director of the Institute for Art and Music History Research and Head of the Department of Musicology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (AT)
Matti Bunzl desig. Director Wien Museum, Vienna (AT)
Paul Kahl Research Associate / Lecturer in Modern German Literature, University of Göttingen (DE)
Olivia Lichtscheidl Curator Sisi Museum, Vienna (AT)
Sylvia Mattl-Wurm Head of the Vienna City Hall Library, Vienna (AT)
Monika Pessler Director Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna (AT)
Josef Rohrer Museum Passeier, St. Leonhard in Passeier (IT)
Hannes Schweiger Research Associate, Literature Archive of the Austrian National Library, Vienna (AT)
Christine Siegert desig. Head of the Musicology Department at the Beethoven-Haus Bonn (DE)
Suzie Wong Head of Public Relations, Vienna Library in the City Hall, Vienna (AT)

Conception and design
Monika Sommer Cultural Scholar, Curator, Vienna (AT)
Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen Head of the Museumsakademie Joanneum, Graz (AT)

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