Museums and the idea of historical progress : ICMAH – COMCOL 2012 annual conference, in conjunction with ICOM-South Africa.

Type: Publication

ISBN: 978-0-621-43105-6.

Meeting: ICOM International Committee for Museums and Collections of Archaeology and History (ICMAH), ICOM International Committee for Collecting (COMCOL) and ICOM South African National Committee. Joint conference, Cape Town, South Africa, November 2012

Place, publisher, year: Cape Town : Iziko Museums, in assoc. with ICOM-South Africa, 2014

Notes: Electronic publication. Incl. notes, bibl. and biographies of speakers.

Collation: 258 p. ; couv. ill.

Author: Omar, Rooksana; Ndhlovu, Bongani; Gibson, Laura; Vawda, Shahid (eds.)

Year: 2014.

Serial type: Livre - Monographie - Document

Website: Go to website

Synopsis: The conference examined the following issues:_x000D_ Can utopias be recognised in the history of our museum and its collections? Did museums documented utopias of the past? If so, how?_x000D_ Should museums be forums for reflecting the intellectual promises of the utopian world and the actually existing conditions? Do museums have a responsibility to discuss the issues as mentioned above? How can this be implemented in the collection profile of the museum and in collecting and exhibition policies?_x000D_ Does the promise of new utopias require an international ethical reconsideration of the existing distribution of museum collections? How could this look like in practice?_x000D_ Do museums of the South have any new or innovative insights?

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