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Re-thinking care in museum conservation II 
Convenors:
Anne-Sofie Hjemdahl (Telemark Research Institute)
Torgeir Rinke Bangstad (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Terje Planke (NTNU og Norsk Folkemuseum)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
MUSEUMS AND MATERIALITIES
:
Room K-207
Sessions:
Thursday 16 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

Throughout the museum's history, different strategies have been used to handle the museum objects physically and to maintain their meaning in the museum's overall knowledge project. This panel focus upon the epistemological or ontological part of museum conservation and care.

Long Abstract:

Among other things, museums are places where objects are cared for. Contemporary museums have huge magazines, complex store management-systems and a meticulous set of procedures to handle museums objects. Throughout the museum's history, different strategies have been used to handle the museum objects physically and to maintain their meaning and position in the museum's overall knowledge project. As a consequence, today's museum objects carry with them both an epistemological history as well as physical residues of past conservation and care practices. Museum objects might have changed chemically due to pesticide treatment, they might carry signs of repair processes, and objects might undergo physical change upon being moved to a new climate and context.

Most of these conservation practices have been to keep the fragile objects together and give them an extended duration, and to preserve them with a linear museal eternity in mind.

In this panel, we seek papers that focus on museums' strategies for dealing with and caring for their objects. How do different forms of conservation affect the perceived value of objects? We welcome empirical projects that focus upon special museum strategies and practices for care and conservation, and we welcome papers that question perpetual care of museum objects and research that offer alternative forms of conservation and care within museums. Papers might focus upon historical museum practices or contemporary strategies of museum care, and they might focus upon the epistemological or ontological part of museum conservation and care.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Thursday 16 June, 2022, -
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