Aims:<\/b> The project aimed to develop a comparative critique of approaches to universal histories in museums and of the role of museums in building knowledge about the future.<\/p>\n
Methodology:\u00a0<\/b>The project combined critical investigation of universal histories and universal museums through three workshops \u2013 two in Paris and one in London \u2013 plus two historical case studies, based in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Mus\u00e9e du quai Branly.<\/p>\n
Outputs:<\/b> Reports on workshops, an international conference in Paris, a digital exhibition, a co-edited collection Universal Histories & Universal Museums: A Transnational Comparison<\/em>, and a book chapter, ‘Universal Histories, Universal Exhibitions and Universal Museums: Henry Cole and the Legacies of the South Kensington Museum’ by Sandra Kemp and Herv\u00e9 Inglebert. Over the course of the project, we blogged regularly about our activities and research progress.<\/p>\n Who we are:<\/b> The project was led by Prof Sandra Kemp (Director, The Ruskin \u2013 Library, Museum and Research Centre, <\/em>Lancaster University and Visiting Professor, Imperial College London), Prof Herv\u00e9 Inglebert (Universit\u00e9 Paris Nanterre), and Andr\u00e9 Delpuech (Mus\u00e9e de l’Homme), assisted by postdoctoral researcher Chiara Zuanni (V&A).\u00a0The research was jointly funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council \u2018Care for the Future: Thinking Forward through the Past<\/a>\u2019 and the LABEX \u2018Pasts in the Present<\/a>\u2019 programmes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aims: The project aimed to develop a comparative critique of approaches to universal histories in museums and of the role of museums in building knowledge about the future. Methodology:\u00a0The project combined critical investigation of universal histories and universal museums through three workshops \u2013 two in Paris and one in London \u2013 plus two historical case … Continue reading <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":1510,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/front-page.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","with-featured-image"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9Q5ty-B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/universalhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/universalhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/universalhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/universalhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/universalhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/universalhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/universalhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions\/2089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/universalhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/universalhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}