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’
Category: International Exhibition
Back at the Musée du quai Branly
Blog post by Sandra Kemp, Project PI at the V&A, and Chiara Zuanni, postdoctoral researcher at the V&A. The Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac is one of our project partners and we have visited their collections and archives a number of times over the past year. Founded in 2006, the Museum has collections comprising … Continue reading Back at the Musée du quai Branly
Research in Paris: Musèe de l’Homme
Blog post by Sandra Kemp, Project PI at the V&A, and Chiara Zuanni, postdoctoral researcher at the V&A. Hello, Paris! This week we are later with our usual blog update. The reason is that on Monday, we got on an earlier train to Paris for a full two weeks of archival research and exciting meetings … Continue reading Research in Paris: Musèe de l’Homme
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