About the Book
Bringing together an international forum of experts, this book looks at how museums, libraries and further public cultural institutions respond to the effects of globalisation, mobility and migration across Europe.
It puts forward examples of innovative practice and policies that reflect these challenges, looking at issues such as how cultural institutions present themselves to and interact with multicultural audiences, how to support networking across European institutions, and share practice in core activities such as archiving interpreting and exhibiting artefacts. Academics, practitioners from museums and public institutions and policymakers explore theoretical and practical approaches from a range of different disciplines such as museum and cultural heritage studies, cultural memory studies, social anthropology, sociology of organizations, cultural heritage management and cultural heritage informatics.
Table of Contents:
Contents: Introduction: migrating heritage - experiences of cultural networks and cultural dialogue in Europe, Perla Innocenti; Remapping Europe - a remix: a case study in international and inter-institutional collaboration and networking, Katherine Watson and Vivian Paulissen; Translating objects, transnationalising collections: inventing Europe between museums and researchers, Alexander Badenoch; Migrating heritage, networks and networking: Europe and Islamic heritage, Sharon Macdonald; Migrations and multiculturalism: a design approach for cultural institutions, Eleonora Lupo, Lucia Parrino, Sara Radice, Davide Spallazzo and Raffaella Trocchianesi; Visualising interdisciplinary research: algorithmic treatment of museum case-study information sets, David Gauthier, Jakob Bak and Jamie Allen; Europeana: cultural heritage in the digital age, Eleanor Kenny; Moving through time and culture with the biodiversity heritage library, Constance Rinaldo and Jane Smith; La Cité Nationale de l’histoire de l’immigation: a central venue and national network - an ongoing challenge, Agnès Arquez-Roth; On Their Own: telling child migrant stories in a transnational context, Kim Tao; Roma routes: heritage as a path to dialogue, Patricia Reynolds; City museums beyond the museum: networking as a strategy for 21st-century European city museums, Francesca Lanz; Turin-Earth: city and new migrations - from historical reflection to civil consciousness in the present day, Guido Vaglio; Inclusive collecting strategies of city museums in a diverse society: thoughts on the implementation of multi-perspectivity beyond group categories, Frauke Miera and Lorraine Bluche; Post-critical museology: the distributed museum and the crisis of European representation, Andrew Dewdney and Victoria Walsh; The issue of repatriation for natural history museums in Europe: attempts at the sharing of heritage between science and traditional societies, Laurence Isnard and Fabienne Galangau-Quérat; Critical objects: museums, refugees and intercultural dialogue, Domenico Sergi; A `curious’ case study: creating intercultural dialogue through objects, Aileen Strachan; Project Blickwinkel: rediscovering, reinventing and reinterpreting collections at the Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne, Sandra Vacca; The Reggiane factory and new immigrants: memory and local history to strengthen integration, Michele Bellelli and Federico Zannoni; Separate workings: exploring hidden histories by examining the racially biased policies in the transport systems of South Africa and the display of a South African Railways locomotive at the Riverside Museum, Glasgow, John Messner; Intercultural dialogue as the mission of a museum: the Officina Multimediale di Papa Giovanni XXIII in Sotto il Monte, Bergamo, Italy, Rita Capurro; Self-promotion or cultural and ideological infiltration? Foreign donations and acquisition suggestions in the British Library: a Russian case study, Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia; Library and museum hybridisation: ultimate spatial forms of institutional collaboration in the process of identity representation, Jacopo Leveratto; Re-collecting and connecting: public art, migrating heritage and the relocation of cultural memory, Celeste Ianniciello; Index.
About the Author :
Perla Innocenti, University of Glasgow, UK.
Perla Innocenti, Katherine Watson, Vivian Paulissen, Alexander Badenoch, Sharon Macdonald, Eleonora Lupo, Lucia Parrino, Sara Radice, Davide Spallazzo, Raffaella Trocchianesi, David Gauthier, Jakob Bak, Jamie Allen, Eleanor Kenny, Constance Rinaldo, Jane Smith, Agnès Arquez-Roth, Kim Tao, Patricia Reynolds, Francesca Lanz, Guido Vaglio, Frauke Miera, Lorraine Bluche, Andrew Dewdney, Victoria Walsh, Laurence Isnard, Fabienne Galangau-Quérat, Domenico Sergi, Aileen Strachan, Sandra Vacca, Michele Bellelli, Federico Zannoni, John Messner, Rita Capurro, Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia, Jacopo Leveratto, Celeste Ianniciello
Review :
'The world is on the move and, yet, museums are still made of bricks and mortar. This book takes up the important topic of how cultural institutions across Europe are responding to heightened globalization, migration, and interculturality. Theoretically rich and practically-oriented, it brings to light when and how museums are helping to create successful diverse communities and nations.' Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College, USA 'This book is an informative contribution dealing with the cultural heritage of the plural society in the 21st century. It devotes itself to the question of how public cultural institutions can react to the effects of globalization in Europe. The suggestions and case studies in this volume broaden one's mind since they are written by authors with different professional backgrounds and thus go beyond the usual academic discussion.' Elisabeth Tietmeyer, Museum Europaischer Kulturen - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (The Museum of European Cultures, Berlin National Museums), Germany 'In difficult times for the European project, with migration at the very heart of controversy, here is a much-needed analytical take on nation-transcending heritage institutions and practices in the digital age, by a bevy of diverse, well-qualified authors.' Philip Schlesinger, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK 'This thought-provoking collection demonstrates the many and varied opportunities museums and galleries offer for intercultural engagement. It brings together an impressive multi-disciplinary array of authors, including academic analysts, educators and curators, whose critical perspectives produce a creative dialogue that lays good foundations for the development of innovative approaches to grappling with issues around unbounded identities and displaced heritages.' Ullrich Kockel, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, UK
