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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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
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