The forgotten 20th century

Collecting contemporary history

16.06. - 17.06.2016

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Date

16.06. - 17.06.2016

Location

Museumsakademie Joanneum

Meeting point

Wien Museum (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

The history of the 20th and the early 21st centuries is underrepresented in Austria’s (cultural) history collections. Museums that have established plans in keeping with the times and have begun actively collecting are still the exception. Since museum professionals define their institution’s potential for future development through how they update their collection plans, we would like to deal with the following questions in a series of theoretical inputs and reports based on experience: What are the key topics that represent the 20th and the early 21st centuries? What particular conditions apply to collecting objects of this time period? What experiences and concrete plans do museums already have for dealing with this issue? What considerations and criteria are these based on? What models of cooperation and what institutional partnerships appear promising? What role do private initiatives and collectors play? What in our time is worth preserving?


With

Karl C. Berger Director of the Folk Art Museum, Tyrolean State Museums, Innsbruck (AT)
Matti Bunzl Director Wien Museum, Vienna (AT)
Andrea Euler Head of the Folklore and Everyday Culture Collection, Upper Austrian Provincial Museum, Linz (AT)
Walter Feldbacher Research Associate Multimedia Collections, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz (AT)
Werner Hanak-Lettner Chief Curator Jewish Museum Vienna (AT)
Gerhard Hetfleisch Managing Director Centre for Migrants in Tyrol (ZeMiT), Innsbruck (AT)
Heimo Hofgartner Chief Curator Multimedia Collections, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz (AT)
Johannes Kapeller Research Associate, Austrian Media Library, Vienna (AT)
Kazuo Kandutsch Historian and curator, Verein Geschichte willkommen!, Head of Studies Collection Strategy HGÖ, Vienna (AT)
Armin Laussegger Head of the Lower Austrian State Collections, St. Pölten (AT)
Andreas Lehner Exhibition designer and curator, Pinkafeld (AT)
Pascale Meyer Head of Cultural History 2, Curator 20th/21st century, Swiss National Museum, National Museum Zurich (CH)
Gerhard Milchram Head of Political History and City Chronicle Collection, Wien Museum (AT)
Hans Petschar Head of the Picture Archive and Graphics Collection of the Austrian National Library, Vienna (AT)
Dietmar Preißler Director of Collections House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn (DE)
Christiane Rainer Historian and curator, Verein Geschichte willkommen!, Head of Studies Collection Strategy HGÖ, Vienna (AT)
Oliver Rathkolb Professor of Contemporary History, University of Vienna (AT)
Werner-Michael Schwarz Head of Collection Media History, Working World, Leisure, Wien Museum (AT)
Hubert Weitensfelder Head of the Production Technology Collection, TMW Vienna (AT)
Nikolaus Wostry Managing Director and Head of Collections Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna (AT)

 

Organisers 

Dirk Rupnow Head of the Institute for Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck (AT) 
Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen Head of Museumsakademie Joanneum, Graz (AT)