The final workshop of the ‘Universal Histories and Universal Museums’ project was held on 17th November at Université Paris Nanterre. Sandra Kemp, the project’s PI, opened the day introducing the project and the workshop’s themes. She began by summarising the overarching aim of the project: to develop a comparative critique of approaches to universal histories … Continue reading REPORTING FROM WORKSHOP THREE: ‘MUSEUM UNIVERSALITIES IN WESTERN CULTURAL CAPITALS IN THE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY’
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Reporting from our workshop ‘The Evolution of the Museum’
Ten days ago, we held our first two-day ‘Universal Histories and Universal Museums’ (UHUM) project workshop, ‘The Evolution of the Museum’, at the Science Museum in London. The first day we were at Blythe House, which hosts the archives and part of the conservation sections and stores of the Science Museum, the V&A, and the British … Continue reading Reporting from our workshop ‘The Evolution of the Museum’
Exploring possible futures at the 1876 Loan Collection
Blog post by Chiara Zuanni, postdoctoral researcher at the V&A. In one of our previous posts, Sandra introduced one of the papers we are working on which focuses on an interdisciplinary and transnational comparison in order to explore how museums collecting and displaying practices and international fairs contributed to the making of knowledge in the late … Continue reading Exploring possible futures at the 1876 Loan Collection
A visit to the Horniman Museum
Blog post by Chiara Zuanni, postdoctoral researcher at the V&A. Last week, I went with Sandra to the Horniman Museum to try to trace some objects we have encountered in our archival research. Although the Horniman Museum opened in 1901, collections acquired by the Horniman family have been on display since 1890 in their former … Continue reading A visit to the Horniman Museum
Travelling objects and transnationalism
Blog post by Sandra Kemp, V&A project Principal Investigator. In a series of reviews of the 1878 Paris exhibition, John Lockwood Kipling, then curator of the Lahore Museum, compares French and British exhibition displays. He begins: Novelty of idea is claimed for this display, but it would be hard to find a notion about … Continue reading Travelling objects and transnationalism
Introducing the case studies
Post by Chiara Zuanni, postdoctoral researcher at the V&A. After Sandra’s post introducing the Universal Histories and Universal Museums research project, it is now my turn to introduce the case studies. Indeed, my role as postdoctoral researcher on the project focuses on the archival research for these case studies, working alongside Sandra’s in London and … Continue reading Introducing the case studies