Architectural Legacy. The Visual Representation of Natural History

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Architectural Legacy. The Visual Representation of Natural History

Veranstalter
Anita Hermannstädter M.A., Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Veranstaltungsort
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin
Ort
Berlin
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
20.05.2019 - 21.05.2019
Deadline
12.05.2019
Website
https://www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/de/wissenschaft/forschung/museum-und-gesellschaft/architectural-legacy-visual-representation-natural
Von
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

The nineteenth century saw the building of natural history museums across Europe, at a time when there was acute controversy among scientists and the wider public over whether and how life had evolved. These natural history museums were built as interventions in these controversies, and at the same time they served to assert the importance of national scientific traditions. They remain key sites for the public understanding of science and nature. In this workshop we will examine how the architecture and aesthetics of the major natural history museums in Europe express distinct conceptions of science from within their national traditions and reflect on the meanings embodied in their plans, design and decoration. Through discussions of the interpretative implications of museum architecture, we hope to become more mindful of the implied scientific and ideological narratives built into the fabric of natural history museums and to turn the architectural legacy of nineteenth-century science into a richer resource, both for the public and the museums themselves. Looking at three modern examples of architectural additions, alterations of historical buildings and new constructions, we aim to shed light on contemporary forms and their capacity to combine old and new architecture based on current discourses, insights and requirements.

The workshop was conceived and organized by the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin in cooperation with the University of Birmingham, the Mount Allison University (Canada), the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

REGISTRATION: The number of participants is limited, please register before 12 May here: https://survey.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/en/architektur

Programm

PROGRAMME
Monday, 20 May

12:30 – 13:15 Registration

13:15
Welcome Address, Johannes Vogel, Director General
Introduction, Anita Hermannstädter, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

13:30 – 15:30
Session I: Cultural forms for scientific ideas
Chair: Anita Hermannstädter, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

13:30
Building Nature in Victorian England: Natural Theology and Darwinian Science at the Oxford University Museum and the Natural History Museum
John Holmes, University of Birmingham

14:15
400 years of visually displaying natural history: The Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris
Charlotte Bigg, Centre Alexandre-Koyré, Paris

14:45
Comment by Maike Weißpflug, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, and discussion

15:30 BREAK

16:00 – 17:45
Session II: Entering the Book of Nature
Chair: Janine Rogers, Mount Allison University

16:00
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien – Where Science meets Art
Stefanie Jovanovic-Kruspel, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

16:30
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin – Revolution of the New Museum Idea on Display in 1889
Jutta Helbig, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

17:00
Comment by Will Tattersdill, University of Birmingham, and discussion

18:00 – 21:00
Reception in the Dinosaur Hall

19:00 Optional:
Guided tour through the museum building, led by Peter Bartsch, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (The number of participants is limited, registration required)
Or
Insights into the architecture of insects with examples from the museum collection with Michael Ohl, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, in Exhibition Hall 2
Tuesday, 21 May

9:30 – 11:30 Session III:
New challenges – new architectures. How do current new buildings reflect the shifting role of museums?
Chair: John Holmes, University of Birmingham

9:30
The ROM, its architecture and disciplinary disposition
Sascha Priewe, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

10:00
MUSE – an example of the dialogue between architecture and concept in newly erected natural history museum
Michele Lanzinger, MUSE – Museo delle Scienze, Trentino

10:30
Africa Museum Tervuren, a contemporary and decolonised vision of Africa in a historic building
Tine Huyse, Royal Museum for Central Africa

11:30 BREAK

12:00 – 13:00
Comments and Discussion
Moderator: Niki Vermeulen, University of Edinburgh

Comments by Janine Rogers, Mount Allison University, Tahani Nadim, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, and Paul Smith, Oxford University Museum

13:00 END

Everyone attending the conference is welcome to visit the exhibitions free of charge.

Kontakt

Anita Hermannstädter
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin

humanities@mfn.berlin

https://www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/de/wissenschaft/forschung/museum-und-gesellschaft/architectural-legacy-visual-representation-natural