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The de-professionalised museum

New participants, new audiences, new professions?

04.12. - 05.12.2014

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Date

04.12. - 05.12.2014

Location

Museumsakademie Joanneum, Wien

Meeting point

Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde, 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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Event

Bloggers are today’s critics, passers-by the new correspondents, and ambitious amateurs sought-after actors in professional theatres. Culture and the media are currently undergoing a process of transformation, which is redefining the traditional role of experts. After recent demands from all sides, the (celebrated) opening of the museum to include lay people in museum practice has challenged the traditional self-image of those who have historically been responsible for all aspects of the museum. Our event is devoted to the fact that there has been little reflection so far on the consequences of this de-professionalization on museum practice, identity and structures, and therefore we would like to ask the following questions: How have the tasks of collecting and conserving been redefined in the near and medium term in light of a de-professionalisation of museum practice? Where are exhibiting and communication headed when artists are becoming curators, curators are becoming communicators, and communicators are becoming social workers? What tasks will be assigned to the public in the future, and is the museum still considered a place of historical and aesthetic expertise? And where do we see the experiences with this new museum practice leading to a re-professionalisation, in that new professions and job profiles are emerging?


In cooperation with
Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde

With
Matthias Beitl Director of the Austrian Folklore Museum, Vienna (AT)
Günther Friesinger Member of the artist group monochrom, Vienna (AT)
Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen Director of the Joanneum Museum Academy, Graz (AT)
Angela Jannelli research associate Research associate at the Historisches Museum Frankfurt, curator in the team for the new permanent exhibition ‘Frankfurt Jetzt!’ and the ‘Stadtlabor’, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
Marie-Paule Jungblut Director of the Basel Historical Museum (CH)
Stefan Krankenhagen Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Hildesheim (DE)
Daniëlle Kuijten Heritage Concepting, Amsterdam (NL)
Franziska Mucha Research Volunteer Historical Museum Frankfurt am Main (DE)
Zara Pfeiffer Political scientist, author, curator, Munich (DE)


Organisers of the event 
Stefan Krankenhagen Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Hildesheim (DE)
Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen Director of the Joanneum Museum Academy, Graz (AT)

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