Does the Museum Just Preserve the Museum?

This is a series designed both to celebrate and to question what we do in museums and what museums do to us, and to ask what the future should hold for the museum and what the museum should hold for the future. We will explore the ways in which what museums do is enabled and limited by their history and the history of collecting, asking whether and how museums can use their collections to transcend time. We will explore the constraints placed on museums by national history and how they contest natural history. We will think about museums as installations and museums as laboratories. And we will ask how healthy is the pressure to make visitors love their experiences in museums. Have museums failed or succeeded if some people hate

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Session 5: Maurice Davies

SESSION 5: Is curation about the objects or the audience? Maurice Davies (The Museum Consultancy / King’s College London) Chair: Robin Osborne

01-05
01:33:47

Session 4: Sam Alberti and Mark Wallinger (Discussion)

SESSION 4: Is the curator a scientist or an artist? Sam Alberti (Royal College of Surgeons of. England/ Hunterian Museum) Mark Wallinger Chair: Liba Taub

01-05
54:24

Session 4: Sam Alberti and Mark Wallinger

SESSION 4: Is the curator a scientist or an artist? Sam Alberti (Royal College of Surgeons of. England/ Hunterian Museum) Mark Wallinger Chair: Liba Taub

01-05
01:03:00

Session 3: Paul Smith and Martin Roth (Discussion)

SESSION 3: Does the museum have a natural history? a national history? Paul Smith (Oxford University Museum of Natural History) Martin Roth (V&A) Chair: Liz Hide

01-05
01:01:10

Session 3: Paul Smith and Martin Roth

SESSION 3: Does the museum have a natural history? a national history? Paul Smith (Oxford University Museum of Natural History) Martin Roth (V&A) Chair: Liz Hide

01-05
52:32

Session 2: Minna Moore Ede and Paul Greenhalgh (Discussion)

SESSION 2: Should museum displays rejoice in being of their time, or aim to transcend time? Minna Moore Ede (National Gallery) Paul Greenhalgh (Sainsbury Centre) Chair: Tim Knox

01-05
01:01:00

Session 2: Minna Moore Ede and Paul Greenhalgh

SESSION 2: Should museum displays rejoice in being of their time, or aim to transcend time? Minna Moore Ede (National Gallery) Paul Greenhalgh (Sainsbury Centre) Chair: Tim Knox

01-05
01:03:11

Session 1: Tim Knox and Alexander Sturgis (Discussion)

SESSION 1: Subversive traditions? Does the current enthusiasm for the history of collecting and of the museum silence objects, or make them speak? Tim Knox (Fitzwilliam Museum) Alexander Sturgis (Ashmolean Museum) Chair: Caroline Vout

01-05
01:04:29

Session 1: Tim Knox and Alexander Sturgis

SESSION 1: Subversive traditions? Does the current enthusiasm for the history of collecting and of the museum silence objects, or make them speak? Tim Knox (Fitzwilliam Museum) Alexander Sturgis (Ashmolean Museum) Chair: Caroline Vout

01-05
01:01:00
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