@Linden-Museum Stuttgart
29.3 – 31.3.2023
The conservation departments of ethnographic museums are indispensable for joint participatory and collaborative projects of their institutions with indigenous communities.
Nevertheless, they often remain in the background when it comes to conceiving
and managing such projects, or using them to forge long-term relationships with communities.
This workshop explores the potential for closer, mutually beneficial and sustainable partnerships between indigenous
conservation departments in European museums. Through the presentation of concrete
projects, the workshop will also provide a space for discussion on the day-to-day challenges and questions
and issues that such cooperation brings.
Programme
29.03.
3.30 - 3.45 pm: Welcome Speeches
4 - 6 pm: Panel 1: Museum and Indigenous Resilience: Enabling Solidarities between Local audiences and Indigenous Communities
- Maike Powroznik, Ethnographic Museum, University of Zurich
On the reconnection of a collection to the originator's society - Doris Kurella, Linden-Museum Stuttgart
"El buen vivir Mapuche" - What is a "good life" in Mapuche culture and how is it reflected in the material culture?
- Coffee break
30.03.
9 - 10.15 am: Complementing Panel 1: Museums and Indigenous Resilience: Enabling Solidarities between Local Audiences and Indigenous Communities
-
Awhina
Tamarapa: Victoria University, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Taking care – honouring relationships between Māori and museums
10.15 am - 12.40 pm: Panel 2: Practicing Planetary Care: Stories of Sustainability from the Museum
- Sina Herrmann, German Museums Association
Climate action and sustainability in museums - Acting ecologically and recognizing potential - Margrit Reuss, National Museum of World Cultures, Leiden
Plastic Crush - Approaches to a more sustainable exhibition preparation
- Lunch Break
12.40 - 2.10 pm: Panel 3: Conservation Standards and Participative Projects
- Ana
Motnikar, Slovene Ethnographic Museum
What to store and how - Mille Gabriel & Anne-Mette Marchen Andersen, National Museum of Denmark
When acid-free tissue paper and medical gowns aren’t enough
- Coffee break
2.10 - 4 pm: Panel 3 Part 2: Conservation Standards and Participative
Projects
- Siska
Genbrugge, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren
Blurred lines: preservation of museum objects travelling outside the museum box - Fiona Siegenthaler & Nina
Frankenhauser, Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Cooperation – Care – Communication: Three case examples at the Africa department - Diana
Gabler & Marika Kessler, MARKK Hamburg
Developing cuturally sensitive approaches to collections care at MARKK
4.30 - 5.30 pm: Curatorial Tours
- “Where is Africa?” (with Fiona Siegenthaler, Curator Africa, Linden-Museum Stuttgart)
- “Whakawhanaungatanga:
Connecting taonga Māori across time, place and people”
(with Ulrich Menter, Curator Oceania, Linden-Museum Stuttgart)
31.03.
9 - 11.00 am: Panel 4: Bridging the Distance: Enabling Long Term Relationships between
Communities of Origin and Conservators in European Museums
- Leonie
Gärtner, Ethnologisches Museum SMB SPK, Berlin
The Palau Bai Group in Berlin - Peter McElhinney, Varldskulturmuseerna, Stockholm, Gothenburg:
Reflections on collections care practices at the Smithsonian Institutes National Museum of the American Indian - Christiane Jordan, Weltmuseum Wien
Informal visits or professional projects
- Coffee break
11 am - 12.00 pm: Panel 4 Part 2: Bridging the Distance: Enabling Long Term Relationships between
Communities of Origin and Conservators in European Museums
- Sofie
Dierickx, Royal Museum Central Africa, Tervuren
Exchanging expertise and experience across continents: towards a sustainable co-stewardship - Jeremy Uden, Pitt Rivers Museum
Talking Threads projects
12 pm: Wrap-up Discussion