 Subjects -> MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES (Total: 56 journals)
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- Toward a Critical Children’s Museology: The Anything Goes Exhibition at
the National Museum in Warsaw
Authors: Monica Eileen Patterson
Pages: 330 - 350
Abstract: For decades, Museum Studies scholars have called for a new ‘critical museology’ with greater inclusion of marginalized communities and diversification of exhibition content, but children have been largely ignored in these efforts. This paper explores the possibilities for what I call a new ‘Critical Children’s Museology’ through in-depth analysis of the Anything Goes exhibition at the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. Curated by 69 children, this ground-breaking exhibition radically broke from current and traditional museological practice by offering prominent institutional space and professional support for children’s cultural production in the form of curated exhibition galleries and programming. I analyze the exhibition, its production process, and its strengths and limitations to consider the possibilities and challenges of bringing child-centred praxis into museology. This work contributes to the larger charge of democratizing museum and curatorial practice by upending the patronizing view of children as passive recipients of museum offerings, focusing instead on their capacities for cultural production, critical interpretation, and curatorial innovation.
PubDate: 2021-11-01
DOI: 10.29311/mas.v19i3.3393
Issue No: Vol. 19, No. 3 (2021)
- The Lives and Deaths of an Ethnographic Museum: History, Violence and
Curatorial Collaborations in Guinea-Bissau
Authors: Ramon Sarró, Ana Temudo
Pages: 369 - 381
Abstract: This article discusses the history of the National Ethnographic Museum of Guinea-Bissau (West Africa) and an exhibition we curated about it in Bissau in 2017, which serendipitously led to its reopening. The Museum, which was created in 1988, had ceased to exist because of a civil war in 1998-99. Thanks to a reconstruction of contact prints in the archives of Bissau, we were able to organize an exhibition and to conduct research on the history of the museum. Methodologically, the article illustrates the potential of photography in museum historiography and revitalization. Thematically, it exemplifies the history of museography in West Africa from the mid-1980s through the 1990s, the role of museums in the creation of national heritage, and, by looking at the present situation of the Museum at stake, the fragile place that ethnographic museums have in the politics of culture in today’s Africa.
PubDate: 2021-11-01
DOI: 10.29311/mas.v19i3.3825
Issue No: Vol. 19, No. 3 (2021)
- Haunted Intimacy: Spectral and Vital Space within a Historic House Museum
Authors: Marisa Karyl Franz
Pages: 382 - 394
Abstract: Merchant’s House Museum is haunted. While it functions as a historic house museum in Manhattan, the house remains the home of the Tredwell family who now appear as ghosts. For the museum, these ghosts become animating presences, continuing to keep the everyday things of the house embedded in the intimate space of a family’s home. Throughout this article, I explore how those connected to the house as staff, visitors, and volunteers present the ghosts of the Tredwells and, based on these peoples’ experiences, I examine the Tredwell house within a museological framework of, what I term, haunted intimacy, that keeps the house in vital relation to the family.
PubDate: 2021-11-01
DOI: 10.29311/mas.v19i3.3830
Issue No: Vol. 19, No. 3 (2021)
- Object Biographies and Museums: 100 X Congo in Antwerp, Exhibition at the
Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, Belgium, 3 October 2020 - 12 September 2021
Authors: Hugo DeBlock
Pages: 395 - 409
Abstract: The Museum aan de Stroom (MAS) in Antwerp, Belgium, opened the doors of its long-anticipated exhibition, 100 X Congo, on 3 October 2020, highlighting the presence of a Congolese art collection that has been owned by the city for a hundred years (1920-2020). Tackling the often uneasy history of how these things ended up in museums in the colonial ‘motherland’, this exhibition signals a step forwards in museology in Belgium, away from mere aestheticism of Congolese and, by extension, African arts, towards, in contrast, a focus on provenance, context and cultural importance.
PubDate: 2021-11-01
DOI: 10.29311/mas.v19i3.3783
Issue No: Vol. 19, No. 3 (2021)
- Book Review: Domenico Sergi, Museums, Refugees and Communities
Authors: Anna Chiara Cimoli
Pages: 410 - 412
PubDate: 2021-11-01
DOI: 10.29311/mas.v19i3.3858
Issue No: Vol. 19, No. 3 (2021)
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