Does the Museum Just Preserve the Museum?

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.

  • 1 hour 33 minutes
    Session 5: Maurice Davies
    SESSION 5: Is curation about the objects or the audience? Maurice Davies (The Museum Consultancy / King’s College London) Chair: Robin Osborne
    5 January 2015, 10:10 am
  • 54 minutes 24 seconds
    Session 4: Sam Alberti and Mark Wallinger (Discussion)
    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
    5 January 2015, 10:09 am
  • 1 hour 3 minutes
    Session 4: Sam Alberti and Mark Wallinger
    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
    5 January 2015, 10:08 am
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    Session 3: Paul Smith and Martin Roth (Discussion)
    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
    5 January 2015, 10:07 am
  • 52 minutes 32 seconds
    Session 3: Paul Smith and Martin Roth
    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
    5 January 2015, 10:06 am
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    Session 2: Minna Moore Ede and Paul Greenhalgh (Discussion)
    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
    5 January 2015, 9:25 am
  • 1 hour 3 minutes
    Session 2: Minna Moore Ede and Paul Greenhalgh
    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
    5 January 2015, 9:24 am
  • 1 hour 4 minutes
    Session 1: Tim Knox and Alexander Sturgis (Discussion)
    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
    5 January 2015, 9:22 am
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    Session 1: Tim Knox and Alexander Sturgis
    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
    5 January 2015, 9:19 am
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