{"id":253,"date":"2017-03-20T17:19:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T17:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/universalhistories.org\/?page_id=253"},"modified":"2018-06-12T10:55:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T10:55:40","slug":"call-for-papers-the-evolution-of-the-museum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/universalhistories\/events-2\/programme\/call-for-papers-the-evolution-of-the-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers: \u2018The Evolution of the Museum\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

13-14th<\/sup> July 2017, Science Museum, London.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Museums are emergent entities \u2013 and the evolution of a museum is dependent on a number of factors, including: changes in collecting and disposal practices; re-displays; and the legacy of temporary exhibitions. New pedagogical perspectives relating to new questions or ideological trends, either in museology or in the disciplines represented in the collections, are also influential.<\/p>\n

This workshop will focus on selected case studies to analyse the impact of these changes on methodological issues relating to universal histories and universal museums. In particular, the evolution of the museum will be discussed in relation to the impact of temporary exhibitions and the circulation of knowledge in the public sphere. The workshop will explore how social knowledge practices influence the structuring of institutional knowledge, and the emergence of new disciplines.<\/p>\n

The case studies that we will use to trace this evolution over time are the 1876 Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus at the South Kensington Museum and the creation of the Mus\u00e9e d’Ethnographie du Trocad\u00e9ro.<\/p>\n

The 1876 Loan Exhibition is a temporary exhibition which took place in 1876 at the South Kensington Museum and was one of the founding displays which led to the creation of the Science Museum. This exhibition offers an ideal case study for the ways in which temporary displays have a permanent legacy in national and international museum collections, and how far the interpretation and presentation of materials was transformed in this process.<\/p>\n

The Mus\u00e9e d’Ethnographie du Trocad\u00e9ro opened in 1882 following the 1878 International Exhibition, for which the Trocad\u00e9ro palace had been built. Though many studies have focused on the successive transformations of this museum in the Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Homme and, successively, the Mus\u00e9e du Quai Branly and the MUCEM, the first assemblage and display of these ethnographic collections is less well known. Drawing on the place given to the arts, the regions, and different themes in universal exhibitions in Paris, and particularly in the 1878 exhibition, the discussion of the Mus\u00e9e d’Ethnographie will cast new light on the motivations and relationships of collectors, learned societies, politicians, and publics in informing the creation of this museum.<\/p>\n

The workshop will bring together researchers from ethnography, history of science, and museum history, to explore the evolution of museums, mainly \u2013 but not only \u2013 in France and the UK. The workshop will also contain a session with the objects studied in the Universal Histories and Universal Museums project. We invite papers and posters exploring the agencies and reception of these two institutions and their collections. Contributions might consider, but need not be confined to, the following themes:<\/p>\n