MuseumsList by author Theme Description 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) Scott Colman Wouter Davidts Andrew Hutson Hannah Lewi Museums, Objects, Context: buildings and projects by Sverre Fehn Paul Walker |