Does the Museum Just Preserve the Museum?

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This is a series designed both to celebrate and to question what we do in museums and what museums do to us, and to ask what the future should hold for the museum and what the museum should hold for the future. We will explore the ways in which what museums do is enabled and limited by their histo…

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    • Jan 5, 2015 LATEST EPISODE
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    Session 5: Maurice Davies

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2015 93:00


    SESSION 5: Is curation about the objects or the audience? Maurice Davies (The Museum Consultancy / King’s College London) Chair: Robin Osborne

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    Session 4: Sam Alberti and Mark Wallinger (Discussion)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2015 54:24


    SESSION 4: Is the curator a scientist or an artist? Sam Alberti (Royal College of Surgeons of. England/ Hunterian Museum) Mark Wallinger Chair: Liba Taub

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    Session 4: Sam Alberti and Mark Wallinger

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2015 63:00


    SESSION 4: Is the curator a scientist or an artist? Sam Alberti (Royal College of Surgeons of. England/ Hunterian Museum) Mark Wallinger Chair: Liba Taub

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    Session 3: Paul Smith and Martin Roth (Discussion)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2015 61:00


    SESSION 3: Does the museum have a natural history? a national history? Paul Smith (Oxford University Museum of Natural History) Martin Roth (V&A) Chair: Liz Hide

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    Session 3: Paul Smith and Martin Roth

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2015 52:32


    SESSION 3: Does the museum have a natural history? a national history? Paul Smith (Oxford University Museum of Natural History) Martin Roth (V&A) Chair: Liz Hide

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    Session 2: Minna Moore Ede and Paul Greenhalgh (Discussion)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2015 61:00


    SESSION 2: Should museum displays rejoice in being of their time, or aim to transcend time? Minna Moore Ede (National Gallery) Paul Greenhalgh (Sainsbury Centre) Chair: Tim Knox

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    Session 2: Minna Moore Ede and Paul Greenhalgh

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2015 63:00


    SESSION 2: Should museum displays rejoice in being of their time, or aim to transcend time? Minna Moore Ede (National Gallery) Paul Greenhalgh (Sainsbury Centre) Chair: Tim Knox

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    Session 1: Tim Knox and Alexander Sturgis (Discussion)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2015 64:00


    SESSION 1: Subversive traditions? Does the current enthusiasm for the history of collecting and of the museum silence objects, or make them speak? Tim Knox (Fitzwilliam Museum) Alexander Sturgis (Ashmolean Museum) Chair: Caroline Vout

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    Session 1: Tim Knox and Alexander Sturgis

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2015 61:00


    SESSION 1: Subversive traditions? Does the current enthusiasm for the history of collecting and of the museum silence objects, or make them speak? Tim Knox (Fitzwilliam Museum) Alexander Sturgis (Ashmolean Museum) Chair: Caroline Vout

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