European Museums in the 21st Century : Setting the Framework

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European Museums in the 21st Century: Setting the Framework
Vol. 3
Books European Museums
in the 21st Century:
Setting the Framework
Volume 3
edited by Luca Basso Peressut, Francesca Lanz
and Gennaro Postiglione
Books European Museums in the 21st Century: setting the framework (vol. 3) — v iv — European Museums in the 21st Century: setting the framework (vol. 3)
mela book 07 – European Museums in the 21st Century: Setting the framework (vol. 3) European Museums in the 21st Century:Published by Politecnico di Milano
Setting the Framework
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mons.org/. 1 – National History Museums
isbn 9788895194332 Museums as Agonistic Spaces
Clelia Pozzi
Te Museum and Radical Democracy
Chantal Moufe
This Book ensued from the Research Project MeLa - European Museums in an age of migra- 2 – Natural History Museums
tions, funded within the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (SSH-2010-
5.2.2) under Grant Agreement n° 266757. Museums of Natural History in Europe
Project Officer: Louisa Anastopoulou
Fabienne Galangau-Quérat, Sarah Gamaire and Laurence Isnard
Museums in France
Florence Baläen
Escape from Bureaucracy
Giovanni Pinna
Constructing a Highly Citizen-Oriented Refection
mela consortium Interview with Judith Pargamin
Politecnico di Milano (Coordinator), Italy – Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design,
Denmark – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche ITIA, Italy – University of Glasgow, United 3 – Ethnographic and World Culture(s) Museums
Kingdom – Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain – Muséum National d’Histoire
Naturelle, France – The Royal College of Art, United Kingdom – Newcastle University, Ethnographic Museums: Towards a New Paradigm?
United Kingdom – Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’ Orientale,” Italy.
Camilla Paganiwww.mela-project.eu
Exhibition-ismenglish editing
Ilaria Parini, Tim Quinn, John EkingtonMaria Camilla de Palma
graphic design Cultural Diference and Cultural Diversity
Zetalab — Milano
Nélia Dias
layout
National Museum of World CultureFrancisco J. Rodríguez Pérez and Cristina F. Colombo
Interview with Klas Grinell
legal notice The views expressed here are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not [S]oggetti Migranti
necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission. Interview with Vito LattanziEuropean Museums in the 21st Century: setting the framework (vol. 3) — vii vi — European Museums in the 21st Century: setting the framework (vol. 3)
æ volume 2 Acknowledgments
4 – Migration Museums
Migration Museums in Europe
Anna Chiara Cimoli
Museum and Nation
Joachim Baur
Te German Emigration Center
Simone Eick
5 – City Museums Tese books grew out of the work of the Research Field 6 “Envision-
ing 21st Century Museums,” led by Luca Basso Peressut and Gennaro City Museums in Transition: a European Overview
Postiglione, Politecnico di Milano, within the European project MeLa– Francesca Lanz
European Museums in an age of migrations. MeLa is a four-year inter-
City Museums: Do We Have a Role in Shaping the Global Community? disciplinary research project funded in 2011 by the European Commis-
Jack Lohman sion under the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities Programme
International Networking Projects and the Web (Seventh Framework Programme). Adopting the notion of “migration”
Interview with Marie-Paule Jungblut as a paradigm of the contemporary global and multicultural world, MeLa
refects on the role of museums and heritage in the twenty-frst century.
Te main objective of the MeLa project is to defne innovative museum æ volume 3
practices that refect the challenges of the contemporary processes of glo -
6 – Local Museums balization, mobility and migration. As people, objects, knowledge and
information move at increasingly high rates, a sharper awareness of an Local Museums as Strategic Cultural Forces for 21st Century Society
inclusive European identity is needed to facilitate mutual understanding Elena Montanari
and social cohesion. MeLa aims at empowering museums spaces, prac-
Local Museums of the Future tices and policies with the task of building this identity. MeLa involves
Hugues de Varine nine European partners—universities, museums, research institutes and
7 – War Museums a company—who will lead six Research Fields (RF) with a collaborative
approach, and this book is meant to report about the preliminary fndings Narratives of Conficts: Architecture and Representation in European War Museums
of the frst research phases. Luca Basso Peressut
Te editors would like to thank all the scholars who enriched this book 8 – Temporary Exhibitions
with their suggestions and contributions as well as all the museums and
Forms of Collecting / Forms of Hearing their staf, curators, directors, designer and architects who kindly pro-
Marco Borsotti vided information, images and drawings supporting our investigations.
Exhibiting History Amention goes to the English editors and translators, and to Elena
Paolo Rosa, Studio Azzurro Montanari, Cristina Colombo and the staf from POLIMI, who essen-
tially contributed with their help to the editing of this book. Interviews with: Anna Seiderer, Galitt Kenan and Marc-Olivier GonsethEuropean Museums in the 21st Century: setting the framework (vol. 3) — ix viii — European Museums in the 21st Century: setting the framework (vol. 3)
Te project’s Research Field 6, Envisioning 21st Century Museums—
which is developed in parallel to and in consultation with the other fve
project research areas—is aimed at pinpointing innovative models, prac-
tices and tools to further the role of European museums in promoting
new democratic and inclusive forms of citizenship, contributing to foster
dialogue between the diferent ethnic, religious, social and generational
groups which characterise our societies, and furthering awareness and
education among new citizens and young generations.
While the investigation and the consideration of the role of contempo -
rary museums and heritage has nowadays become a relevant component
of the European agenda and lively debate on the subject is gaining prom-Introduction inence, nurtured also by several research projects and academic studies,
European Museums: Mapping an Ongoing Change museums themselves are questioning their raison d’être and roles, and
undergoing a process of deep transformation of their missions, strategies,
practices, spaces and exhibitions.
Te present books collect the work of MeLa Research Field 6, Envision-
ing 21st Century Museums, and are meant to illustrate the preliminary re-
sults of its earlier investigations aimed at mapping and exploring such a
transformation process and its features, particularly in terms of architec-
ture renewal, museography and exhibition settings. Te frst phase of this
research feld thus focused on the possibility of mapping current trends in
Te MeLa Project, funded in march 2011 by the European Commission contemporary European museums in order to set up an overall picture of
under the Seventh Framework Programme (Social Science and Humani- the state of the art of museum development in relation with the abov-e
ties) is a four years long reserch project, which aims to investigate the mentioned issues and questions. Its activity has been aimed at defning a
efects of contemporary phenomena such as globalisation, demographic general framework for the development of subsequent research phases,
movement, transformation of migration patterns, increased mobility of that are the identifcation of strategies and practices to support a renewed
people, as well as of objects, ideas and knowledge on the form, organisa - and increased role for museums, and the revision of their contribution in -
tion, mission and status of museums, and to explore the likely potential building a democratic inclusive European citizenship through practicable
role of museums in the construction of an inclusive European identity by and efective intervention by EU policy-makers and the institutions work-
facilitating mutual understanding and social cohesion. ing in cultural and educational felds. Tis research has been investigating
diferent categories of museums, individuated as those which better repre-Adopting the notion of “migration” as a paradigm of the contemporary
sent the current status of European museums, including: national history global and multicultural world, MeLa refects on the role of museums
museums, ethnographic museums and museums of cultures, migration and heritage in Europe in the 21st century. Te project aims to investi-
m city museums, local museums, and war museums. Because of gate how, and to what extent, changes in population fows an