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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2023] Contested Bronzes, Gendered Technology, (Im)material Music. Sources of Museum Knowledge Production and their Potential for Historical Research
DESCRIPTION:Modern museums, in all their diversity, have always been controversial places: from their civic, national, and imperial beginnings to multimedia blockbuster exhibitions today. Museums have been celebrated and criticized, praised to the skies and slated, ever since they became accessible to a broader public. Today, it seems that museums - as institutions of cultural self-assurance - have even increased their influence on society, but they are also being called into question more than ever before. Whether technology, ethnology, or history - in museums, social knowledge is negotiated and produced, criticized and legitimized. How can the sources and practices of museum knowledge production be made useful for historical research? What potential do they hold for the deconstruction of hegemonic claims to interpretation and truth in and outside of museums?
On the basis of several case studies, we ask about the potential of practices and sources of museum knowledge production. From disputed bronzes and their restitution in colonial trade relations, the role of digital and social media in restitution debates, to the collection and documentation of counter-gendered technical artifacts and the exhibitionability of electronic music, narratives can be critically questioned, challenged, and reconsidered. Can museums become institutions that critically reflect on societal power relations and fundamentally question their own practices of including and excluding things, people, and perspectives? Or are museums as hierarchical, colonial, and patriarchal institutions, despite all efforts at reflection, at the mercy of the reproduction of social hegemonies?









Der Beitrag Contested Bronzes, Gendered Technology, (Im)material Music. Sources of Museum Knowledge Production and their Potential for Historical Research erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2023.
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