MUSEUMS

MUSEUMS
KNOWLEDGE, DEMOCRACY
AND TRANSFORMATION
PROGRAM
SEMINAR
MAY 26-27, 2014
KRONBORG CASTLE
AND DANISH MARITIME MUSEUM
MUSEUMS
KNOWLEDGE, DEMOCRACY
AND TRANSFORMATION
Knowledge, democracy and transformation are key markers for the annual international seminar
about the 2013-results of the User Survey carried out at more than 200 museums and cultural
institutions in collaboration with the Danish Agency for Culture. The seminar is organized in
collaboration with the Association of Danish Museums and the group responsible for the project
‘Museums and Cultural Institutions as Spaces for Citizenship’.
The seminar focuses on four areas: Learning and Identity, Gender-mainstreaming, Intercultural
Dialogue and Cultural Tourism. Each area will be reflected from a strategic management
perspective, from an international perspective and discussed among the participants in the
seminar.
The seminar addresses managers, curators, educators and communication employees in
museums and cultural institutions as well as researchers, students and professors from the
universities.
The seminar language is English.
Time: May 26-27, 2014.
Venue: Kronborg Castle and Danish Maritime Museum, Helsingør.
With reservations for minor changes to the program.
In connection with the seminar all participants receive a copy of the Danish Agency for Culture’s
new publication Museums – Knowledge, Democracy and Transformation presenting, analyses
and reflects the results of the User Survey 2013. Participants will also receive the publication
Space for Citizenship, an anthology based on experiences from the project ‘Museums and
Cultural Institutions as Spaces for Citizenship’ and Dialogue Based Teaching. The following
publications will also be available: Caring is Sharing – Åbenhed og deling I kulturarvssektoren and
Praksis Manual – Samarbejde mellem museer, læreruddannelser, skoler.
Participants in the project ‘Museums and Cultural Institutions as Spaces for Citizenship’: The Royal Danish
Theatre, Museum of Copenhagen, The National Gallery of Denmark, ARKEN – Museum of Modern Art,
Thorvaldsens Museum, J.F. Willumsens Museum, Education Center, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Designmuseum
Danmark, KØS – Museum of Art in Public Spaces & The National Museum.
MONDAY, MAY 26
9:00
REGISTRATION AT KRONBORG CASTLE
Coffee/tea and croissants
10:00
WELCOME
Anette Østerby, Head of Division, Danish Agency for Culture
MUSEUMS – Knowledge, Democracy and Transformation
Ida Brændholt Lundgaard, senior advisor, Danish Agency for Culture
Jacob Thorek Jensen, advisor, Danish Agency for Culture
Museums and Cultural Institutions as Spaces for Citizenship
Lise Sattrup, PhD-student, The National Gallery of Denmark
10:30
DEMOCRACY, TEACHING AND MUSEUMS
Gert J. J. Biesta, Professor of Educational Theory and Policy, University of
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
11:00
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE WITHIN PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS
RELATED TO THE CITIZENSHIP PROJECT
George E. Hein, Professor Emeritus, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, USA
11:30
WORKSHOP
The workshop is facilitated by participants in the project ‘Museums and Cultural
Institutions as Spaces for Citizenship’.
The workshop reflects the seminar’s presentations and produces questions to be
discussed at the panel discussion.
All workshops will discuss questions and experiences with museum praxis from the
point of view of knowledge paradigms, learning and exhibitions. The point of
departure for the discussions is a citizenship perspective.
Coffe/tea and fruit
12:45
LUNCH
13:45
THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM AS KNOWLEDGE CENTER AND
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
Bo Skaarup, Director, Naturhistorisk Museum, Aarhus
13:55
GENDER AND IDENTITY AT THE ART MUSEUM
Sanne Kofod Olsen, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art
14:05
THE ART MUSEUM AS A DIALOGIC LEARNING SPACE - FOSTERING
BROAD EDUCATIONAL GOALS
Olga Dysthe, Professor Emerita, Department of Education, University of Bergen,
Norway
14:35
WORKSHOP
The workshop is facilitated by participants in the project ‘Museums and Cultural
Institutions as Spaces for Citizenship’.
The workshop reflects the seminar’s presentations and produces questions to be
discussed at the panel discussion.
All workshops will discuss questions and experiences with museum praxis from the
point of view of knowledge paradigms, learning and exhibitions. The point of
departure for the discussions is a citizenship perspective.
Coffe/tea and cake
15:50
PANEL DISCUSSION: MUSEUMS AND DEMOCRACY
Gert J. J. Biesta, George E. Hein, Olga Dysthe, Bo Skaarup and Sanne Kofod
Olsen.
The outcome of the workshops will form the basis for the discussion.
16:50
TOUR OF KRONBORG CASTLE
17:50
APERITIF AND DINNER AT KRONBORG CASTLE
Frederik II’s Wine Cellar
21:00
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION TODAY!
TUESDAY, MAY 27
9:00
REGISTRATION AT KRONBORG CASTLE
Coffee/tea and croissants
9:30
MUSEUMS ADDRESSING HUMAN RIGHTS
Adele Chynoweth, Curator and Researcher, Canberra, Australia
10:00
CONTEMPORARY GENDER ISSUES IN MUSEUMS
Yasmin Khan, Independent Curator, Cultural Advisor and Freelance Writer, London,
UK
10:30
WORKSHOP
The workshop is facilitated by participants in the project ‘Museums and Cultural
Institutions as Spaces for Citizenship’.
The workshop reflects the seminar’s presentations and produces questions to be
discussed at the panel discussion.
All workshops will discuss questions and experiences with museum praxis from the
point of view of knowledge paradigms, learning and exhibitions. The point of
departure for the discussions is a citizenship perspective.
Coffe/tea and fruit
11:45
LUNCH
12:45
INTERCULTURAL PRACTICE AT THE CULTURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
Flemming Just, Director, Sydvestjyske Museer
12:55
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN A LOCAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Camilla Mordhorst, Director, M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark
13:05
CULTURAL TOURISM
Pier Luigi Sacco, Dean and Professor of Cultural Economics at the Faculty of Arts,
Markets and Cultural Heritage, IULM University Milan, Italy
13:35
WORKSHOP
The workshop is facilitated by participants in the project ‘Museums and Cultural
Institutions as Spaces for Citizenship’.
The workshop reflects the seminar’s presentations and produces questions to be
discussed at the panel discussion.
All workshops will discuss questions and experiences with museum praxis from the
point of view of knowledge paradigms, learning and exhibitions. The point of
departure for the discussions is a citizenship perspective.
Coffe/tea and power snack
14:55
PANEL DISCUSSION: MUSEUMS AND GLOBALISATION
Adele Chynoweth, Yasmin Khan, Pier Luigi Sacco, Flemming Just and Camilla
Mordhorst
The outcome of the workshops will form the basis for the discussion.
16:00
RECEPTION AND TOUR OF DANISH MARITIME MUSEUM
18:00
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION!
WORKSHOP FACILITATORS
Vivi Lena Andersen, Curator & PhD-student, Museum of Copenhagen
Dorte Grannov Balslev, Head of Outreach & Learning, The Royal Danish Theatre
Marianne Bargeman, Head of unit Children & Young People and Information,
SMK, The National Gallery of Denmark
Jane Bendix, Art Educator, ARKEN
Nana Bernhardt, Head of School Programs, SMK, The National Gallery of
Denmark
Julie Lejsgaard, former Curator, Thorvaldsens Museum
Lisbeth Lund, Curator, J.F. Willumsens Museum
Ulla Hahn Ranmar, Head of Education, Music, Education Center
Rikke Rosenberg, PhD-student and previous Head of Education and
Development, Designmuseum Danmark
Dorthe Juul Rugaard, Curator, ARKEN
Lise Sattrup, PhD-student and Project Manager of ‘Museums and Cultural
Institutions as Spaces for Citizenship’, SMK, The National Gallery of Denmark
Sidsel Staun, advisor, Danish Agency for Culture, former Head of Education,
Museum of Copenhagen
Sasja Brovall Villumsen, Coordinator, ‘Museums and Cultural Institutions as
Spaces for Citizenship’
Christina Weber, Head of Education, ARKEN
Hilde Østergaard, Head of Education and School Services, Nikolaj Kunsthal
SPEAKERS
Gert Biesta is currently Professor of Educational Theory and Policy and Head
of the Institute of Education and Society, University of Luxembourg. He has
worked formerly at universities in Scotland, England and the Netherlands and
has held visiting professorships in Sweden and Norway. His work focuses on
the theory and philosophy of education and educational and social research,
with a particular interest in questions of democracy and democratisation and
young people’s democratic practices in non-formal contexts. Three of his most
recent books were translated into Danish: Læring retur (2009, Unge
Pædagoger); God uddannelse i målingens tidsalder (2011, Forlaget Klim); and
Demokratilæring i skole og samfund (2013, Forlaget Klim). His latest book, The
Beautiful Risk of Education (2014, Paradigm Publishers) recently won the
American Educational Research Association 2014 Outstanding Book Award
(Division B: Curriculum Studies) and will appear in Danish translation with Klim
later this year.
Adele Chynoweth is a Visiting Fellow at The Australian National University
where, in 2012, she received a Vice-Chancellor’s Award. She co-curated the
National Museum of Australia’s current touring exhibition Inside: Life in
Children’s Homes and Institutions. Adele was also the researcher and writer of
the Memory Museum, an official event in the programme of the Celebrations for
the Centenary of Federation, South Australia, 2001. Adele trained as a theatre
director and her professional theatre directing credits, in Australia, include work
for State Theatre SA, Vitalstatistix-National Women’s Theatre, the Centre for
Performing Arts and the Street Theatre, Canberra. In addition, Adele was
awarded a PhD for her thesis concerning contemporary Australian drama. Adele
is currently curating, for the Hawke Centre at the University of South Australia,
an exhibition of art works by Australian-New York artist Rachael Romero,
depicting the artist’s incarceration, when she was aged 14, in a Magdalene
laundry in South Australia.
Olga Dysthe is Professor Emerita at the Department of Education, University of
Bergen, Norway. Dysthe has authored and co-authored several books and
articles on learning and teaching from a socio-cultural and dialogic perspectives,
i.e. Det flerstemmige klasserommet (1995), Dialog, samspel og læring (2003),
and Dialogue-based learning. The Museum as a Learning Space (2012).
Yasmin Khan Frsa is an Independent Curator, Cultural Advisor and Freelance
Writer. Her multi-disciplinary work practice stems from a deep interest in the
cultural intersections of science, art and identity. She originally trained as a bioscientist and has a Masters degree in Science and Culture from Birkbeck
College, London. Yasmin was previously the Project Leader for the touring
‘1001 Inventions’ exhibition which aims to highlight the Muslim contribution to
science, technology and engineering. Prior roles at the Science Museum include
being Exhibition Coordinator and Curator Team Manager. Yasmin was also
Interpretation Manager at the British Library where she helped to develop major
exhibitions to engage diverse audiences. Yasmin was awarded the Wellcome
Trust Creative Fellowship on the Clore Cultural Leadership Programme which
included a secondment to the London 2012 Festival. Yasmin is the founder and
producer of Sindbad SciFi: a grassroots movement to re-imagine Middle
Eastern narratives via science fiction.
George E. Hein is Professor Emeritus at Lesley University, Cambridge, MA,
USA. He is the author of Learning in the Museum (1998), and Progressive
Museum Practice: John Dewey and Democracy (2012), as well as numerous
articles on visitor studies, museum education and museology. His primary
current interest is the significance of John Dewey’s work for museums.
Flemming Just (1957) is Director of Sydvestjyske Museer in Ribe/Esbjerg since
2011 and Honorary Professor at the University of Southern Denmark. From
1982-2011 he worked in the university sector and was in 1992 awarded the title
of dr.phil. on a thesis about the relationship between organization and state. In
1998 he became Prorector of the University of Southern Denmark and the
following year he was appointed Professor in contemporary history at the same
university. At the university he has been head of various research centre and
departments within the fields of history and social economics. He has always
been deeply engaged with the university’s, and now the museum’s,
collaboration with society and has been a member of the boards of several
businesses, tourist organizations and organizations. In addition he has always
been engaged in international collaborations and is now heading a Danish
consortium that will open a large exhibition at the Suzhou Museum in China in
2015. The Danish Minister for Culture has appointed him to chair the ministry’s
advisory board for museums: the strategic panel.
Camilla Mordhorst (1970) is cand.comm in communication and European
ethnography from the University of Roskilde (1996) and has written her PhDthesis on the preserved objects from Ole Worm’s Museum at the National
Museum of Denmark (Roskilde University, 2004).Camilla has worked in
museums in over 20 years, often with communication as a central focus point.
During the last 10 years she has worked as Head Curator at the Medical
Museion (2004-2009) and as Head of Communication at the Museum of
Copenhagen (2009-2013). In June 2013 she was appointed Director of M/S
Maritime Museum of Denmark. Camilla Mordhorst has in addition written several
books and articles on the interpretation of objects, the theory of material culture
and the analysis of exhibitions.
Sanne Kofod Olsen (1970) is Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in
Roskilde. She is mag.art. in Art History with a thesis on performance art and
body art from the 1970s. She was previously Rector at Funen Art Academy
(2005-2009) and employed at the Danish Art Agency and Center for
Contemporary Danish Arts. Since the middle of the 1990s she has been a
freelance curator and writer and in addition external lecturer and censor at the
Department of Art History, University of Copenhagen. Sanne Kofod Olsen has
also been a member of the Art’s Council (2011-2013) and is amongst other
members of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Committee on Art History Research,
Board Member of The Danish Centre for Culture and Development as well as
SNYK – a genre-organization for new experimental music and sound art.
Bo Skaarup is Director of Naturhistorisk Museum in Aarhus and is known as
one of Denmark’s best nature interpreter with solid experiences within
management and media when it comes to science communication and
experience economy. He is a marine biologist and has been involved in as
different tasks as that of exhibition pilot at Experimentarium in Copenhagen,
Head of exhibition and shark expert at Kattegatcentret Grenaa, Head of
exhibition at Aqua Ferskvandscentret in Silkeborg, Head of DGI’s natur- og
friluftscenter Karpenhøj as well as Fuglsøcentrets kursus- og konferencecenter
på Mols. In addition, Bo Skaarup has contributed to the development of
Nationalpark Mols Bjerge. As TV host and presenter at the Danish Radio and
Television, Bo Skaarup has opened up the Danish’ Zoo’s and aquariums for the
nation’s TV-viewers, and is in addition known as an active and entertaining
speaker on the topic of Danish nature and landscapes. He has also authored
books on Denmark’s beaches and Fregatten Jylland.
Pier Luigi Sacco is Professor of Economics and Deputy Rector for International
Relationships at IULM University, Milan. He is also the Director of the bid of
Siena for the European Capital of Culture 2019 and the Scientific Director of
Campus Foundation, Lucca. He writes for Il Sole 24 Ore, Artribune and Flash
Art and has published many papers in top journals and in books with major
publishers on cultural economics, cultural policy design, game theory and
economic theory. He is often invited as keynote speaker in major international
conferences and consults widely for national and regional governments,
organizations, and cultural institutions. He is member of the Warwick
Commission, of the European Expert Network on Culture, is in the board of
Ujazdowski Castle Museum Warsaw, and is a member of the European House
for Culture.