The conference is subdivided into 4 sessions:
1. Teyler’s as a link in a international network, or ‘knowledge hub’.
2. Physicotheology, bible criticism and the development of new scientific ideas.
3. The waning of encyclopedism and the advent of specialised disciplines in a museum context.
4. Fine art in a scientific museum - connections, tensions and possibilities.
The conference is to be opened on the evening of Thursday, April 20th, with a public lecture by Prof. Wijnand Mijnhardt (Utrecht). The next two days (Friday and Saturday, April 21st and 22nd) are devoted to the conference itself. Conference visitors will be offered a guided tour through the museum in the afternoon preceding Prof. Mijnhardt’s address on the 20th. Please consult this link for a more detailed description of the programme
Thursday (April 20th, 2017)
Chair: Frans van Lunteren
16.00 - 17.00 Guided tour through the museum for conference visitors
20.00 - 20.45 Wijnand Mijnhardt (Utrecht): Keynote lecture, ‘"The world we have lost". In praise of a comprehensive ideal of science and scholarship’. Hall opens at 19.00.
20.45 - 21.45 Reception
Friday (April 21st, 2017)
09:00-09:45 Registration and coffee
09:45-10:00 Welcome and opening
Session 1: Teylers Museum as a link in an international network, or ‘knowledge hub’, 1785-2017
Chair: Eric Jorink
10:00-10.30 Bert Sliggers (Haarlem): ‘How to collect fossils, stones and minerals for a museum:
The international networks of Martinus van Marum’
10:30-11:00 Holger Zaunstöck (Halle): ‘Different worlds. The cabinet of artefacts and natural curiosities at the Halle orphanage and Teylers Museum in Haarlem’
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Eleá de la Porte (Amsterdam): ‘The uses of the past: Teylers Second Society’s price questions on history at the turn of the eighteenth century’
12:30-13:00 Ilja Nieuwland (Amsterdam/Haarlem): ‘Cornelis T. Winkler, Teyler’s new wing of 1885, continuity and change’
13:00 -14:00 Lunch break
Session 2: Religion and the development of new scientific ideas
Chair: Debora Meijers
14:00 -14:30 Eric Jorink (Amsterdam/Leiden): ‘Science, religion and the culture of collecting 16th-18th century:
the case of Haarlem’
14:30 -15:00 Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge): ‘‘A World so wisely ordered’: Natural Evidence and Biblical Criticism
in the Long Eighteenth Century’
15:00 -15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:00 Frans van Lunteren (Amsterdam/Leiden): ‘The languishing of physico-theology in the nineteenth century’
16:00-16:30 Ann-Sophie Lehmann (Groningen): ‘Evenings in the Museum, or the religious origin of the object lesson.
A case from England’
16:30 Drinks
Saturday (April 22nd, 2017)
09:15-10:00 Keynote: Andrew Burnett (London): ‘Why an Enlightenment gallery at the British Museum? (and what and how?)’
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
Session 3: The waning of encyclopedism and the advent of specialised disciplines in a museum context
Chair: Trienke van der Spek
10:30 -11:00 Eva Dolezel (Berlin): ‘Towards the academic museum. Reinventing a Kunstkammer at the turn of the nineteenth century’
11:00-11:30 Debora Meijers (Amsterdam): ‘Museums and the encyclopaedic ideal: loss and revival’
11:30-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-12:30 Martin Weiss (Bremerhaven): ‘“Le musée, c’est moi”: Curators and the Public at Teylers Museum
in the Nineteenth Century’
12:30-13:00 Wessel Krul (Groningen): ‘History and aesthetics. Museum debates in the Netherlands,
1910-1922’
13:00-14.00 Lunch break
Session 4: Fine art in a scientific museum – connections, tensions and possibilities
Chair: Michiel Plomp
14:00-14:30 Terry van Druten (Haarlem): ‘Teyler’s Museum and changing views about art’
14:30-15:00 Arnold Heumakers (Amsterdam): ‘The rise of the modern Romantic concept of art and the museum’
15:00-15:30 Marcel Barnard (Amsterdam): ‘Visiting the Postmodern Museum: Revisiting the Sacred?’
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:00 Concluding remarks