Museum model transformation: monocentric to polycentric –Трансформация модели...
We should deal with the museum as a „polycentric institution“, not only with special fields of museum work. This is the main thesis of Anatolij A. Budko, director of the Russian Museum of Military...
View ArticleMuseums of Ekaterinburg Factories
Ekaterinburg is the fourth-largest city in Russia in the middle of the Eurasian continent, and the main industrial and cultural center of the broader region. At the conference, Denis Vladimirovich...
View ArticleMuseums as ambassadors and political players? Impulses for German-Russian...
This blog has already provided many important and interesting suggestions for my conference talk. Thanks to all colleagues for their comments to my contribution on German Russian museum relations....
View ArticleМягкая сила музыкальной культуры России – The Soft power of Russian culture...
Michail Bryzgalov, director of the State Glinka Museum in Moscow, will present a session at the conference exploring what museums of musician culture and politics have in common. Since politicians are...
View ArticleМеждународное сотрудничество в контексте национальной и региональной...
Another abstract, this time in Russian, from German and Russian colleagues about bi-national collaborations. В контексте сотрудничества в области культуры России и Германии, взаимного интереса органов...
View ArticleMuseums and “Hard History”
What’s “hard history?” It’s not difficult to find hard to talk about subjects in any of the three countries who sponsored the conference and this session on Thursday, September 11 included talks from...
View ArticleTsarskoye Selo
The last day of the conference in Saint Petersburg took us to the Tsarskoye Selo State Museum for both tours and the roundup of the conference (see the Reflections post). Such a magnificent place–what...
View ArticleOn the Role of Museums
Many of the Saint Petersburg conference participants traveled to Yekaterinburg for the second part of the meeting – a three hours flight to the Ural -, and many more Russian colleagues joined us there....
View ArticleMuseums – objects and subjects of territorial development
Section 2 of the Yekaterinburg part of the conference looked at museums on a broader scale, discussing the professional development of whole museum regions through professional exchange and the...
View Article“Wir, die Museen, stehen nicht außerhalb der Politik, aber darüber”
Prof. Dr. Julja Kantor, Historikerin, Journalistin und Beraterin von Michail Piotroskij, Direktor der Staatlichen Ermitage in St. Petersburg, hielt auf der Konferenz in der Sektion 3 „Museums and ‚Hard...
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