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Provenance Practices in Museums (online, 10 May 21)
online, May 10, 2021
Alexandra Germer, Cambridge 'Thinking Provenance, Thinking Restitution' Workshop Series 2020-2021
Provenance Practices in Museums | A Roundtable Discussion Monday 10 May 2021, 2-4pm (UK time)
This session includes brief talks, followed by a roundtable discussion, by museum professionals and academics who focus on provenance research in museums in the UK, Germany, France and Austria. Speakers will discuss specific provenance research projects – ranging from restitution of silver objects at the Bavarian National Museum to Nazi and colonial-era provenance at the Victo- ria & Albert Museum —that have posed interpretive and museological challenges. They will also present novel prospects for considering the relationship between provenance and restitution prac- tices.
14:05 Welcome
Dr Mary-Ann Middelkoop & Dr Lucy Wasensteiner 14:10 Opening Remarks
Prof Christoph Zuschlag (Universität Bonn)
14:15 Presentations and Roundtable Discussion: 'Provenance Practices in Museums' Chair: Dr Lucy Wasensteiner
Participants:
Dr Jacques Schuhmacher (Victoria & Albert Museum, London) 'A Washington Blueprint? The Les- sons and Challenges of Nazi-looted Art and Colonial-era Artefacts'
Andrea Berger (Technisches Museum Wien) 'Provenance and Restitution in Museums and Collec- tive Memory'
Dr Matthias Weniger (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum Munich) 'The first project devoted to a search for heirs in Germany'
15:15 General discussion 15:45 Closing Remarks
Prof Nick Thomas (University of Cambridge)
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15:50 Closure
Dr Mary-Ann Middelkoop & Dr Lucy Wasensteiner
The event will be held online via Zoom. Free admission, but registration is required: http- s://www.eventbrite.com/e/thinking-provenance-thinking-restitution-provenance-practices-in-mu- seums-tickets-151973788693
The 'Thinking Provenance, Thinking Restitution' workshop series 2020-2021 is made possible by funding provided by the DAAD Cambridge Research Hub for German Studies.
http://www.daad.cam.ac.uk/workshops/thinking-provenance-thinking-restitution
Reference:
CONF: Provenance Practices in Museums (online, 10 May 21). In: ArtHist.net, May 6, 2021 (accessed Feb 27, 2022), <https://arthist.net/archive/34024>.
