Museums and Communities. The Heritage of Belonging

9 - 10 November 2012

The conference “Museums and Communities. The Heritage of Belonging” focuses on the relation...]]> 2012-02-10 13:33:00 http://www.museumcommunities.com/weblog/the-musee-de-la-civilisation-in-quebec/74

What I remember most from my visit to the Musée de la Civilisation in 2009 was a fragment from a documentary, showing a young aboriginal woman shouting out her rights. She and her family were...]]> 2011-12-20 14:34:00 http://www.museumcommunities.com/weblog/call-for-papers-international-conference-museums-and-communities-the-heritage-of-belonging/73

Museums and Communities

The heritage of belonging

8 - 10 November 2012

“Zijn musea doorgeslagen in hun virtuele vertellingen?” Zo begint Rutger Pontzen zijn analyse van “de nieuwe museumbelevenis”. De vraag stellen is hem beantwoorden. Pontzen heeft zo zijn twijfels over opkomst van theatrale en interactieve museumopstellingen.

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Donderdag 10 november was het Dordrechts Museum de ontmoetingsplaats voor professionals én vrijwilligers uit Nederlandse en Belgische musea. Het Community Museums Past and Present (CMPP) project van de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam organiseerde hier samen met het Erfgoedhuis Zuid-Holland de bijeenkomst The Sherlock Holmes Museums in London was founded in 1990 and was the first museum to be dedicated to a fictional character. It is located at 221B Baker Street, the address Sherlock Holmes in the novels of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The museum is furbished with Victorian furniture, to create the illusion that the visitors actually enter...]]> 2011-06-14 16:43:00 http://www.museumcommunities.com/weblog/the-mercedes-benz-museum/67 Recently I visited the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, as it part of one of my major research cases: car brands and their heritage. This case examines how commercial brands – like Mercedes-Benz, Porsche or Ferrari – try to create a sense of community around their businesses and how they use heritage to achieve that.

Until several years ago, Mercedes-Benz...]]> 2011-05-04 14:56:00 http://www.museumcommunities.com/weblog/het-mas-is-bijna-af/66 Op dinsdag 17 mei 2011 opent in Antwerpen het MAS | Museum aan de Stroom. Dat wordt gevierd met een openingsfestival van vrijdag 13 tot en met maandag 16 mei. Kijk op de website voor het programma: http://www.mas.be.

Een monument vol verhalen is opgebouwd rond de verhalen die in en rondom de kerk vervat zitten. Verhalen over geloof, de Laurens en de stad Rotterdam worden meegegeven via een audioguide in de vorm van een bijbel. Met de audiobijbel in de hand wordt de bezoeker langs de visueel sterke kapellen geloodst, die door het ontwerpbureau...]]> 2011-03-01 12:14:00 http://www.museumcommunities.com/weblog/studiedag-herinneringsculturen-en-erfgoedpraktijken-van-migratie-in-de-lage-landen-9-mei-2011/64 De afdeling Geschiedenis van de Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication organiseert op maandag 9 mei 2011 de studiedag 'Herinneringsculturen en erfgoedpraktijken van migratie in de Lage Landen'. Deze studiedag handelt over de wijzen waarop migranten...]]> 2011-01-24 16:04:00 http://www.museumcommunities.com/weblog/museums-and-performativity-part-1/63 In the blogpost of August 18 2010 I pointed at the various difficulties we encounter when we try to relate the concept of community to the museum. The overlap of meanings, the many different interpretations and the multiple contexts in which community is mentioned, lead to what I call a “community cacophony”.

<...]]> 2010-12-02 13:13:00 http://www.museumcommunities.com/weblog/voorbij-het-object-een-dag-in-de-laurens-in-dutch/62 'Voorbij het object’ was het thema van het symposium in de Laurenskerk Rotterdam op 11 november 2010, georganiseerd door het team van het onderzoeksproject Community Museums Past & Present van de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. Voorbij het object, omdat het in de recent geopende expositie in de Laurenskerk Een monument vol verhalen over de verhalen gaat die in en...]]> 2010-11-24 15:52:00 http://www.museumcommunities.com/weblog/stam-a-new-city-museum-in-ghent-belgium/61 The new city museum in Ghent (STAM) is now open to the public. Visitors can walk by the story of Ghent on a chronological pathway, which leads them from the Iron Age to nowadays and beyond. For people who are already familiar with Ghent the museum wants to offer new viewpoints and insights as the website tells us. Further reading on the website lets us...]]> 2010-09-20 15:53:00 http://www.museumcommunities.com/weblog/a-visit-to-le-creusot/60 Of course the extremely hot weather could explain the fact that very few people visited the Le Creusot museum, the Château de la Verrerie, the permanent exposition 'Le Métal, La Machine et les Hommes’ and the small theater on Friday July 16 2010. As a former industrial city, Le Creusot does not invite for an elaborate acquaintance in the first place. It is a series of...]]> 2010-08-18 18:07:00 http://www.museumcommunities.com/weblog/community-participation-and-the-role-of-the-museum-in-a-municipal-environment/58 A day at the Summer School on Museums, Cultural Diversity and Management of the University of Antwerp.

This year’s summer school at the University of Antwerp, organized by the Department of Cultural Management focused on museums, cultural diversity and management (1-8 July 2010). This focus was chosen because of the increasing importance of the notion of cultural diversity...]]> 2010-08-18 17:45:00 http://www.museumcommunities.com/weblog/observations-of-museums-and-communities/57 The relation between museums and (their) communities is a frequently debated, described, and reformulated topic. A quick browse through the academic literature results in various books whose titles directly refer to museum-community relations. We have Karp’s, Mullen Kreamer’s and Levine’s (eds.) Museums and Communities (1992); Crooke’s Museums and...]]> 2010-06-30 22:51:00 http://www.museumcommunities.com/weblog/announcement-conference-at-the-laurenskerk-rotterdam-11-november-2010-in-dutch/55

Voorbij het object. Authenticiteit, performativiteit, publiek en community

Vooraankondiging erfgoedsymposium

Deze zomer worden de kapellen van de Rotterdamse Laurenskerk nieuw ingericht op basis van hun oude bestemming. Buro kossman.dejong heeft eigentijdse media, kunst en design ingezet om het verhaal van de...]]> 2010-06-30 22:11:00 http://www.museumcommunities.com/weblog/welcome/54 With this first blog post I would like to welcome you to the website Museum Communties. This website is part of the Erausmus University research project Community Museum Past and Present. This partly research (partly postdoc, partly PhD) focusses on the history of the community museum, the relations between museum and community theory and the challenges to and opportunities for...]]>