Museums Knowledge, Democracy and Transformation

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.

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.

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.

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 bio- scientist 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 PhD- thesis 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.