Alt trifft neu. Impressionen von der Manifesta II
MANIFESTA ist eine wandernde europäische Biennale zeitgenössischer Kunst. Zwei Jubiläen gilt es in 2014 zu feiern: 20 Jahre MANIFESTA 10 und 250 Jahre Eremitage. Schauplatz sind verschiedene Standorte...
View ArticleМузеи и развитие общества
Irina Chuvilova submitted this report on Section 2 of the very full day of September 11, on Museums and the development of society. Работа началась с осмотра экспозиций Государственого музея...
View ArticleMuseums and “Hard History”
What’s “hard history?” It’s not difficult to find hard to talk about subjects in any of the three countries who sponsored the conference and this session on Thursday, September 11 included talks from...
View ArticleStoff zum Träumen: Das neue Depot der Eremitage
Zur Eröffnung des zweiten Depotbaus der Eremitage, “Staraya Derevnya”, wurde geladen. Lage: bedingt durch die rushour eine Stunde Busfahrt. Größe: viele Etagen, endlose Quadratmeter. Ausstattung:...
View ArticlePolitics, Power, and the Public
Conference Section 4 on Thursday was officially running under the topic of ‘Museums and Internal Politics’ and took place at the A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communication. Founded as the museum of...
View ArticleWhere do we go from here? The participants share their reflections
The Saint Petersburg part of the conference ended with what we believe is the most important: a conversation, with all the participants at the final gathering, instead of just closing remarks from the...
View ArticleTsarskoye Selo
The last day of the conference in Saint Petersburg took us to the Tsarskoye Selo State Museum for both tours and the roundup of the conference (see the Reflections post). Such a magnificent place–what...
View ArticleShare Your Photos!
We heard from many of you that you’d love to see and to share pictures from the conference. To facilitate that, we’ve set up a Flickr group, Museums and Politics Conference 2014. So please share,...
View Article“Wir, die Museen, stehen nicht außerhalb der Politik, aber darüber”
Prof. Dr. Julja Kantor, Historikerin, Journalistin und Beraterin von Michail Piotroskij, Direktor der Staatlichen Ermitage in St. Petersburg, hielt auf der Konferenz in der Sektion 3 „Museums and ‚Hard...
View ArticleWhat we have learned – Reflecting on ‘Museums, Politics and Power’
With the big Museum & Politics conference a few weeks behind us already, we, the project team, now took some time to look back. As we think all participants of the conference do, we are still in...
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