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Upcoming activities Symposium: Museums and Display. Stories in a showcase. November 13-14, 2009
Museum displays are the outcomes of choices. On what grounds are these choices
made? What message does the arranging of objects bring?
In the past, museums of art were seen as temples; holy places where the public admires beautiful and costly objects. Nowadays, in most museums we see a trend to show the cultural background of these objects: to add historical information. The esthetic point of view is interchanged for a focus on the cultural context. The outcome of this vision is that art-collections, historical collections and all forms of multimedia are intertwined and that most museums focus on cultural history.
Objects are more appreciated nowadays for their cultural value. They are selected not only because of their esthetic value but because of the links in the chain they can form in the cultural story the curator wants to tell. The ensembles of objects resemble the paragraphs of a story. The aim of the curator is to visualize history and the immaterial heritage, the individual stories en memories behind the object.
To visualize cultural history, objects are indispensable. In some cases many objects are available to the curator, in other cases there are none. This could give a unbalanced vision of history. In this case the collection dictates the themes for exhibitions. Or the curator could use his inventiveness. Choices for visualizing only some chapters of history are not always the outcomes of gaps in the collection. It could even be a gap in the memory of a nation. From this point of view it is one step further to ask how the story can be manipulated. How can the visitor be led or misled to certain perceptions by giving the objects different meanings?
The trends and theories of display and the questions they bring, will be discussed from different angles in two sessions:
Display and Ideas
Translating into Display
Program: (download)
November 13, Friday
Display and Ideas
Discussion Moderator: Lucienne Thys-Şenocak, Koç University
14:00 14:15 Fokke Gerritsen, Netherlands Institute in Turkey, Director
Welcome
Charlie Smid, Netherlands Institute in Turkey
Introduction
14:15 14:45 Susan Legêne, Free University Amsterdam (VU)
Museums
and the Nation in a post colonial world. Plea for a historical
critique of exhibitions
14:50 15:20 Nevra Ertürk, Yıldız Technical University
A New Understanding of Display for the State Museums in Turkey: The
Diyarbakır Museum
Project
15:20 15:30 Break
15:30 15:50 Özge Sade Mete, Koç University, 2009-10 RCAC Fellow
Modernization
and Memory: Selective Remembrance in Archaeological and
Ethnographic Museums in Turkey, 1960-1980
15:55 16:25 Mirjam Hoijtink, University of Amsterdam (UvA)
The Museum of Innocence: A Cultural Crossover
16:30 17:00 Deniz Ünsal, Bilgi University
Objects
in-between: An analysis of display in the Museum of Turkish and
Islamic Arts
Discussion
November 14, Saturday
Translating into Display
Discussion moderator: Charlie Smid, Netherlands Institute in Turkey
10:00 10:30 Robert Verhoogt, Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science
Transition on Display. Recent Changes in Museums and the
Presentation of
Collections in the Netherlands
10:35 11:05 Burçak Madran, Yıldız Technical University
Dreaming about the Museum Exhibitions
11:05 11:25 Break
11:30 12:00 Kees Zandvliet, Amsterdam Historical Museum
The Amsterdam Historical Museum in Motion: City, People,
Collections and
Exhibitions
12:05 12:35 Edhem Eldem, Boğaziçi University
The Challenge of a Flat Collection: The Ottoman Bank Museum
Discussion
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