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Conference were organized by: ICOM Germany, ICOM Russia, and ICOM US Editorial board: Michael Henker, Diana Pardue, Kathy Dowyer Southern, Vladimir Tolstoy, Wim de Vos Lay-out: ICOM Russia 2 Edited by: Michael Henker, Diana Pardue, Kathy Dowyer Southern, Vladimir Tolstoy International conference “Museum and Politics” Proceedings 3 Content Preface 9 Dr. Luís Raposo. The Lisbon Declaration and the future of museums 10 Dr. Matthias Henkel. Museums as holy sites of modern-day self-reassurance. A plea for an 28 extension of the ICOM Code of Ethics Dr. Sally Yerkovich. Is there a future for museum ethics? 39 Mrs. Linda Norris, Mrs. Katrin Hieke, Dr. Kristiane Janeke and Dr. Irina Chuvilova. 51 Creating a Virtual International Conversation: Museums, Politics and Power Dr. Manfred Nawroth. European Support for Institutional Museum Development 56 Mrs. Da Kong. China’s cultural diplomacy through loan exhibitions: The Search for 65 Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China exhibition Mrs. Elizabeth Varner. Proposal for Modification of the US' Foreign Sovereign Immunity 79 Act for Cultural Heritage Lent by Foreign Museums Dr. Britta Kaiser-Schuster. The German-Russian Museum Dialogue – Activities 87 and Projects Dr. Corinna Kuhr-Korolev, Dr. Ulrike Schmiegelt-Rietig. Russian Museums during World 93 War II: Case studies Dr. Regine Dehnel. The German-Russian Museum Dialogue (DRMD): Research on 100 Cultural Objects Removed from Germany to the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1947 Dr. Wesley A. Fisher and Dr. Ruth Weinberger. Holocaust-Era Looted Art: A Current 114 World-Wide Overview 4 Mrs. Brittany Lauren Wheeler. The Foreign Policy of the Museum: Repatriation, Forced 125 Migration, and Native North America Dr. Kristiane Janeke. Museums as ambassadors and political players? Impulses for the 145 German-Russian relations Dr. Markus Moehring. The transnational making of memory. Aims and projects of the tri- 157 national network of museums in the Upper Rhine Valley Mrs. Carolyn Rapkievian. Taking a Stand in a National Museum to Provoke Change in 168 Society Mrs. Diana Pardue, Mr. Sean Kelley. The Role of Museums in Stimulating Dialogue On 176 Pressing Social Issues and Promoting Civic Action Dr. Elsa Bailey, Ms.Wendy Meluch. Science Museums Partner to Bring Community Input 189 into Exhibition Development About Current Research Dr. Alexander Drikker. Museum and a demographic-democratic revolution 202 Md. Abdul Kuddus. Policy and Practice in Museum Growth in Bangladesh: 207 An Overview Mr. Gbénahou Roch Alfred Amour Kiki. The museum: a social transformer 217 Dr. Gulchachak Nazipova. Exposition renovation of Vladimir Lenin and Maxim Gorky 228 Museums in Kazan: is it the comeback of former idols? Dr. Pauline van der Zee. The sorrow of Belgium: Ethnographic Museum collections and 234 their colonial past Mrs. Ajeng Ayu Arainikasih, Mrs. Ardjuna Candotti. Museums & Politics Entangled: In 244 search for hidden war (hi) stories in Indonesian and Dutch museums Dr. Leila Koivunen. The Establishment of the National Museum of Finland and the 262 Silencing of "Exotic" Cultures 5 Mrs. Anjuli Grantham. Exhibiting Russian America: Alaska Museums Respond to the 270 Russian Past Karla Vanraepenbusch. History Museums and the Politics of Commemoration. The Great 279 War Centenary in Flanders Mrs. Orit Engelberg-Baram. A "Glocal" Memory. The Collective Memory of the Holocaust 291 from a Global and Local Perspective. The “Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority - Yad Vashem” and the “United States Holocaust Memorial Museum” Mrs. Karen S. Franklin, Dr. Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek. Looted Jewish Cultural Property- 303 Issues of Research, Ownership and Return Dr. Jörg Skriebeleit. Memory issue. Former concentration camp as a modern historical 311 museums Dr. Laura Demeter. Picking up the Pieces: Traces of the Communist Past in Bucharest and 319 Berlin Mrs. Varsik Sargsyan. Making History in Museum 331 Dr. Anatoly Budko. Political power and museums’ missions 337 Mrs. Tamara Ognjević. State as a hostage of its own cultural policy 345 Dr. Liudmila Bakayutova. Central Museum of communications named after A. S. Popov - 354 Federal state budget institution Mr. Aleksander Stecenko. Activity of non-governmental museums is one of the necessary 360 conditions for preservation and development of Culture Mrs. Amy Ballard. Public Participation in the Design of the National Museum of African 369 American History and Culture 6 Prof. Dr. Markus Walz. More cultural life for metropolises and recreation areas? Museums 374 as subjects of the policy of regional development Mr. Alexander Nikonov. Military and historical museums subordinated to the Ministry of 381 Defense of the Russian Federation: Features work Mrs. Hiba Qassar. Politics, identity and the role of museums in the Middle East 385 Dr. Julia Kupina. Flag on the roof: Museums, National narratives and identity in Tajikistan 390 Mr. Klaus Mohr. "Heimatstuben" - Cultural Homeland Collections of Expellees as a special 405 kind of German Museums Dr. Andrey Khazbulatov, Dr. Olga Baturina. Draft Concept of cultural policy of the 413 Republic of Kazakhstan - first experience Mrs. Olga Taratynova. Specific features of the modern-day development of Russian 418 museums-preserves Mrs. Dorina Xheraj-Subashi. Reflecting the Past to Enhance New Directions in Albanian 422 Museums Linda Norris. Do Museums Need Disaster Plans for People? 431 Dr. Wolfgang Stäbler, Dr. Olga Cherkaeva. International cooperation in the context of 436 national and regional cultural policy: experience and prospects (Russia and Germany) Mr. Denis Ilichev. Museums of Yekaterinburg plants 446 Mrs. Marina Gorozanova, Dr. Irina Chuvilova. Ryazan Museum Centre as a factor of 454 cultural development of the region Dr. Danija Islamova. The cooperation of museums and government is the most important 459 factor in the development of socio-cultural space of the region 7 Mrs. Irina Korobina. The role of museums in the foundation and development of social 474 capital and public space. The place of museums in ideas about contemporary urban planning and development Mr. Knut Wik, Politics and Politicians in Museum Development 477 8 Preface The idea of the international conference “Museum and politics” has appeared in 2011 when three National Committees of the International Council of Museums — ICOM Russia, ICOM Germany, and ICOM US — decided to hold a joint conference in St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg. It is the first time that these three important national committees in the ICOM family share the preparation and presentation of an international event of such significance. The topic of the conference was «Museums and Politics». This topic has always been relevant for the entire domain of culture in all countries of the world, but nowadays it has become critically important. «Museum and Politics» highlights the centrality of museums to their communities. Russia, the US and Germany: each have their own distinct museum traditions and ways of thinking and running museums that stem from their history, society, social and economic means and development. This, together with the many international contributions that were presented in the plenary sessions and the four sections, provided with a strong base and at the same time initiated conversation, discussion and debate over the week and probably much further. For these are the true cornerstones of such international conventions of museums professionals — to gave us opportunity to meet, to talk with one another, to look at different models past and present, and share our expertise and inspiration to develop new ones. The structure of this book will follow the structure of the conference: museums and foreign policy, museums and society development, museums and «hard» history, and museums and internal politics. “Museum and Politics” conference has gathered more than 750 participants from more than 30 countries and around 90 papers a part of which you will be able to see in this edition. 9 Luís Raposo The Lisbon Declaration and the future of museums Confronted with the consequences of the global crisis generated in 2008, following the partial collapse of the world financial banking system, ICOM Europe and ICOM Portugal co-promoted in Lisbon (April 2012), an international conference on “Public Policies towards Museums in Times of Crisis”, attended by more than one hundred of experts from different continents. At the end of the conference, the chairs of six National ICOM European committees (Belgium, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain) and the President of ICOM Europe subscribed a document, known as Lisbon Declaration, which was conceived to deliver to national and regional governments, as well as the European authorities (EU Parliament and Commission; European Council), and to circulate among museums professionals, visitors and citizens in general. Subsequently, the same document has also been signed by Chairs of five other European ICOM National Committees (Germany, Malta, Norway, Romania and United Kingdom) and the President of ICOM. Later on, during the ICOM General Assembly held in Rio de Janeiro (August 2013), this document has been taken as the basis for an ICOM Declaration on “Viability and Sustainability of Museums through the Global Financial Crisis”, adopted unanimously. Finally, the Proceedings of the Lisbon Conference were launched in September 2014 and are available for downloading either through the websites of icommunity 1, and ICOM Portugal 2, as directly in issuu platform 3. In these documents the potential
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