Category: Paris history

REPORTING FROM WORKSHOP THREE: ‘MUSEUM UNIVERSALITIES IN WESTERN CULTURAL CAPITALS IN THE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY’

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’

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’

Displaying Africa, Asia, Oceania and Americas at the Louvre: the Pavillon des Sessions

Blog post by Sandra Kemp, project PI at the V&A, and Chiara Zuanni, postdoctoral researcher at the V&A. One of the objects we are researching is an Aztec sculpture representing Quetzalcoatl, the god of creation and fertility. This sculpture arrived in France in the early 19th century and was first displayed at the Musée Américaine … Continue reading Displaying Africa, Asia, Oceania and Americas at the Louvre: the Pavillon des Sessions