National Museums in a Changing Europe
12-14
December 2012
Central
European
University
Budapest
Friday 14
December 2012
Eunamus final conference:
the Cultural Force of National Museums
9-14.30
Central European University Budapest
How can
the national museum act as a
cultural change agent to encourage an engaged citizenry? As active political
citizenship depends on citizens’ sense of identity and belonging to
communities, the creation of cultural and social cohesion remains a perennial
challenge for any political community at national and regional levels and not
the least within Europe.
This conference will further the understanding of the societal role of the
national museum in the 21th century.
Findings
from the research consortium Eunamus indicate that the national museum plays a vital role in stabilizing and
balancing competing interests within both emerging and established political
communities. Museums negotiate political claims for national unity at the same
time as they showcase Europe’s
national, cultural, and ethnic diversity. They are born out of societal change
and constantly adapt to alterations in political communities. For the last
twenty years they have been challenged with handling at least three parallel
political visions: a national identity, a claim for European identity and
citizenship, and a diverse cultural identity within nations. Now they are being
asked to balance democratic ideals with economic innovation.
This
conference brings together policy makers at all levels, museum
professionals and Eunamus researchers to discuss five cross-cutting
propositions emerging out of this three-year multi-disciplinary transnational
project.
Programme
9-9.30
Opening
9.30-10.15
National museums are born out of and
respond to change
10.15 -
11 National museums mediate and
negotiate conflict
11-11.45
National museums provide cultural
glue both within and between communities
11.45-12.30
Refreshments
12.30-13.15
National museums increasingly
recognize their powerful voice in creating social identies
13.15
-14 National museums must deal with
competing demands from their various audiences
14-14.30
Closing words
To
register, please send an email to contact@eunamus.eu
Invited discussants:
David
Anderson, Director General, National Museum
of Wales, UK
Erminia
Sciacchitano, Direzione generale per la valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale
- Servizio I, Italy
Jacqueline
Eidelman, Chef de département de la politique des publics Ministère de la
Culture et de la
Communication, France
Peter
Assmann, Network of European Museums, Director of Landesmuseum
Austria
Luís
Raposo, Museu Nacional de Arqueologia Portugal,
President of ICOM Portugal, Board of ICOM Europe, Portugal
Anastasia Lazaridou, Director of the Byzantine and Christian
Museums, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Greece
Merike
Lang, Director of The Estonian Open-Air Museum,
Estonia
Péter
Inkei, Director Regional Observatory on Financing Culture in East-Central
Europe, The Budapest
Observatory, Budapest
Rane
Willerslev, Director of the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo,
Norway
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