‘Profusion in Museums – A Report on Contemporary Collecting and Disposal’ by Harald Fredheim, Sharon Macdonald and Jennie Morgan is now available! To read online or to get a printed copy, click here. Or, click here to download the PDF file directly. CARMAH wishes a good read!
Katarzyna Puzon: World Café Contribution 'Museums in their Neighbourhoods' on Jan 29th
Katarzyna Puzon and Banu Karaca will host a table at WeberWorldCafé ‘Changing Neighbourhoods’ at Werkstatt der Kulturen in Berlin on Jan 29th. Organised by the Max Weber Stiftung, the Forum Transregionale Studien, the Orient Institut Beirut, and the Zentrum Moderner Orient.
Sharon Macdonald reflects on what museums (should) keep for the future
Suggested further readings: CARMAH's Reflections
Feel invited to have a look at our Reflections page where you’ll find first reactions on the ‘Restitution Report‘ (Margareta von Oswald); read about the emerging subject of provenance in the Multaka-guided tours at the Pergamon Museum (Rikke Gram); and see a step in the process of Decolonising Berlin’s Streets (Duane Jethro).
New CARMAH Newsletter out now
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New paper by Sharon Macdonald openly accessible here
What pasts to make in the present for the future? Sharon Macdonald‘s paper ‘Heritage Traces, Differences, and Futures: New Research Approaches to Heritage and Society‘ centers projects of heritage in the making and their social side-lining, but also their potential to resuscitate what is forgotten. Read more here.
Otherwise. Rethinking Museums and Heritage - CARMAH Paper #1
CARMAH proudly presents the first collection of essays with an introduction by Sharon Macdonald. Named after the symposium ‘OTHERWISE. Rethinking Museums and Heritage‘ held on July 27th – 28th, 2017. It is an open-access publication and can be downloaded here. Enjoy!
