NAMU · Making national museums: comparing institutional arrangements, narrative scope and cultural integration
FP6 — Marie Curie Actions (Human Resources and Mobility)
- Duration
- 2007-01-01 → 2008-12-31
- EU contribution
- €463,006
- Participants
- 3
- Scheme
- EIF
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Results in brief
Final Activity Report Summary - NAMU (Making National Museums: comparing institutional arrangements, narrative scope and cultural integration)
The purpose of the program was to develop the tools, concepts and organisational resources necessary for investigating and comparing the major public structure of National Museums, as created historically and responding to contemporary challenges of globalisation, European integration, and new media. What are the forces and values of traditional national display in dealing with challenges to national, cultural and political discourse? This has been achieved by a series of conferences providing a venue for younger scholars and eminent researchers from Europe to gather and develop the multi-disciplinary competence necessary for understanding and comparing the dynamics of national museums in a framework for broader historical culture and identity politics. 30 PhD students, 10 post-docs and a selection of key-note speakers and the advisory board have been invited to participate in following the workshops: Workshop 1. Setting the frames. Nations, civil society, disciplines and professionals defining national museums. Linköping University 26-28 February 2007. Workshop 2. National museum narratives, Leicester University, 18-20 June 2007. Workshop 3. National Museums in a Global World, Oslo 19-21 November 2007. Workshop 4. Comparing: National Museums, Territories, Nation-Building and Change. Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden, 18-20 February 2008. Workshop 5. Re-imagining the National Museum: Traditional Institutions in an era of technological change. University of Leicester, UK, 16-18 June 2008. Workshop 6. Concluding conference: European national museums encountering a globalised Culture, Oslo, Norway 17-19November 2007.
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Project objective
Reflections on historical culture have not been de-nationalized by comparative approaches to the same extent, as has research on nationalism. Partly, this is due to the fact that Cultural Heritage as a field is one of the complex responses to contemporary challenges attempting at producing and remoulding collective identity with a new frenzy from the 1990s onwards. Furthermore, the competence for analysing public museum culture is multidisciplinary. Therefore, the need and benefit for transnational, transdisciplinary action to connect research and knowledge is extraordinary and of vital concern. By bringing this field together with a sharp and comparative focus on national museums the program will form a new departure for understanding and working with the European diversity in this central institution.The purpose is to develop the tools, concepts and organisational resources necessary for training researchers, investigating and comparing the major public structure of National Museums, responding to challenges of globalisation, European integration, and new media. What are the forces and values of traditional national display in dealing with challenges to national, cultural and political discourse? This will be achieved by a series of conferences providing a venue for younger scholars and eminent researchers from Europe to gather and develop the multi-disciplinary competence necessary to understand and compare the dynamics of national museums in a framework for broader historical culture and identity politics.The series of events will:a) provide a cross-national and cross disciplinary platform for research training at thematically organised conferences.b) stimulate, develop and organise knowledge on the dynamics of national museums to make a reflexive partnership with the general public sphere and the museum institutions.c) bring a new dimension to a thoroughly nationalised discourse of national museum by putting them in a comparative European context.
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Participants
- LINKÖPINGS UNIVERSITET · LINKÖPINGCoordinatorSweden
- UNIVERSITETET I OSLO · OSLONorway
- UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER · LEICESTERUnited Kingdom
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