Museums

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The museum institution has been marked by constantly changing emphasis throughout its history. It has been seen as an archive for research, a place of education and edification, a site for the ritual performance of citizenship, and as a space of entertainment, amongst other things. While these functions have most often overlapped and interacted, each has carried different implications for the museum object, both at the level of artefact and of architecture. More particularly, each has implied a different relationship between inanimate museum object and animate museum subject; that is, the museum visitor. The papers in this session address the changing role of the museum, and the ways in which this has been reflected in museology, the status of the museum object, and in museum architecture.

Catching up with Now: temporality and contemporality in museums, Naomi Stead, (Museums Introductory Essay)

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Scott Colman
The Performance of Art in the City: Mies van der Rohe’s museum for a small city and Cullinan Hall

Wouter Davidts
A Chronicle of the Museum as an Empty Machine: isotropy, flexibility and the museum for contemporary art

Andrew Hutson
The National Museum of Australia

Hannah Lewi
A Day out at the Hyper-Museum: a comparison of a nineteenth century and digital museum

Paul Walker
Sunday Opening: modes of citizenship in colonial museums

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