Museum tomorrow

Collection / Collecting

25.09. - 26.09.2014

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Date

25.09. - 26.09.2014

Location

Museumsakademie Joanneum, Wien

Meeting point

Vienna (AT)

Costs

180 €, reduced fee 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

There is a whole range of questions that we, as those responsible for museums, must ask ourselves today in order to ensure the existence of the museum tomorrow. With this tomorrow in mind and as the first in a series, we will turn our attention in 2014 to the history of museum collections and collecting today. In lectures, talks and tours as well as together with representatives of the museums of Vienna, we will focus on some fundamental aspects of this topic, covering the museum’s entire spectrum of fields and tasks. What significance have the collections of individual museums had on their identity? What are the challenges of storing and conserving objects? How has the knowledge about collections been preserved? What new ideas are there for communicating old things and what possibilities are there for updating historical collections in terms of design? How can we handle collections on sensitive topics in an appropriate and up-to-date manner? What ideas and projects are there for deaccessioning and what does the future of collecting look like?


Further information

CONFERENCE

With
Margit Berner research associate and curator Associate and Curator of the Cast Collection, Natural History Museum Vienna (AT)
Eva Blimlinger Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)
Martin Fritz Curator, consultant and publicist, Vienna (AT)
Martina Griesser-Stermscheg Head of Collections Department, Technisches Museum Wien (AT)
Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen Head of the Joanneum Museum Academy, Graz (AT)
Herbert Justnik scient. Austrian Museum of Folklore, Vienna (AT)
Armin Laussegger Head of State Collections, Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, St Pölten (AT)
Fidel Peugeot & Karl Emilio Pircher Walking-Chair Design Studio, Vienna (AT)
Christoph Pietrucha wiss. Employee Museumsakademie Joanneum, Graz (AT)
Barbara Staudinger freelance curator, including the moving museum as part of the Vienna Week 2014, Vienna (AT)
Johannes Wieninger Curator of the Asian Collection, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art (MAK) Vienna (AT)


Concept and moderation
Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen Head of the Joanneum Museum Academy, Graz (AT)
Martin Fritz Curator, consultant and publicist, Vienna (AT)