WHERE ARE THE BORDERS? CHALLENGES IN NORDIC MUSEOLOGY 30 AUGUST – 1 SEPTEMBER 2018
Presentations at Ateneum Art Museum, Ateneum-sali
Reception and annual meetings at Helsinki City Museum
Dinner at restaurant Lasipalatsi
Thursday 30 August
9.30 Welcome chair: Minna Sarantola-Weiss
Minna Sarantola-Weiss, ordförande Nordisk museumsförbund Finland
Sointu Fritze, Acting Director, Ateneum Art Museum, Finnish National Gallery
Jussi Pakkasvirta, Vice Dean, Head of Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki
Introduction
Prof. Janne Vilkuna, University of Jyväskylä
10.00 Keynote lecture: Situatedness
Prof. Simon Knell, University of Leicester
10.50 Coffee
Session 1. Museums at the historical borders chair: Kirsi Ojala
11.20 Turku Castle. History before the border
Bengt Selin, Turku Museums
11.35 On the borderless border - one museum, two countries
Linda Vuollo, Tornedalens museum
11.50 The Cultural border of East and West in South- and North-Karelian museums
Reija Eeva, South-Karelian museum
12.05 Connections, cultural heritage and the weight of the past. Museums and nature on the Eastern border
Oona Ilmolahti, University of Eastern Finland
12.30 Discussion
12.40 Lunch
Session 2. Borders in the Arctic Hemisphere chair: Eero Ehanti
14.00 Keynote lecture:
Rastá rájiid. Could Indigenous viewpoints help to detect blind spots and unnecessary borders
in museum?
Curator Áile Aikio, The National Museum of Sámi, Inari
14.50 A Lappish ring in the Design Museum. On the Liminality of Museum Objects.
Leena Svinhufvud and Susanna Thiel, Designmuseum, Helsinki
15.05 Grenser for kjønn? Museer som maskuline eller kjønnsløse steder
Marit Anne Hauan, University of Tromsö
15.20 Kven Connection og rommekolle revival. To kunstprosjekter om kulturarv, grenser og minoriteter
Kaisa Maliniemi & Monica Milch Gebhardt, Varanger museum
15.35. Discussion
15.50 Coffee and opprtunity to visit the exhibitions
19.00 - 21.00 Reception at Helsinki City Museum
Friday 31 August
9.30 Keynote lecture: The Nordic museum in Stockholm: A Nordic perspective in a globalized world.
Thoughts about the museum chair: Hanna Forssell
Sanne Houby-Nielsen, museichef, Nordiska museet
10.00 Comment: Peter Stadius, professor, Helsingfors universitet
10.15 Discussion
10.30 Coffee and Poster presentations by museology students
Session 3. Focus on audiences chair: Anna Wessman
11.10 Gränslös räckvidd med 3D-modeller?
Sara Dixon & Erik Lernestål, Statens historiska museer
11.25 The role of the museum in the neighbourhoods
Pia Hovi-Assad, University of Helsinki
11.40 Public, audiences or visitors? Interdisciplinary look on people in and around museums.
Pille Pruulman-Vengerfeldt, Malmö University
11.55 Discussion
12.10 Lunch
Session 4. Focus on profession chair: Jenni Lucenius
13.30 Culture, nature and art – the development and demise of professional borders within the
Danish museum field from the 1950s until today
Susanne Krogh Jensen, University of Copenhagen
13.45 Museumsreforma och museumsprofesjonane
Årstein Svihus, Museum Vest, Universitetet i Bergen
14.00 Konservatorn - en gränslös gränsvakt?
Caroline Owman, Umeå universitet
14.15 Bordering museum practices
Inkeri Hakamies, University of Helsinki
14.30 Discussion
14.45 Panel: Disciplinary borders within museology
Chairs Lise Skytte Jakobsen and Ane Hejlskov Larsen, Aarhus Univeristy
15.25 Coffee
Session 5. Futures museums chair: Suzie Thomas
16.00 Research vs. exhibition. Challenges of producing permanent exhibitions as academic collaboration.
The case of the Estonian National Museum
Pille Runnel & Agnes Aljas, Estonian National Museum
16.15 Borders between exhibition paradigms: traditional ideas or current trends?
Alex Snellman, University of Helsinki
16.30 Telling new (hi)stories in museums
Sanna-Mari Niemi, University of Helsinki
16.45 Futures museum. Border between historical collections and co-creation of futures in museums.
Katriina Siivonen, Marjukka Parkkinen & Satu Tuittila, University of Turku
17.00 Discussion chair: Minna Sarantola-Weiss
17.20 "The global in the local, between region and nation" – Mannaminne, a world of art- and culture created
by Anders Åberg, Nordingrå, Västernorrland
Kerstin Smeds, Umeå universitet
19.00 Dinner at Restaurant Lasipalatsi
Saturday 1 September
9.00 Meetings of the national working groups
10.00 Annual meeting + coffee
11.00 Excursions:
Alt. 1 Amos Rex Art museum, Helsinki
Alt. 2 Pentala Archipelago museum, Espoo