Museum of Ethnography
H-1146, Budapest, Dózsa György út 35.
Phone: +36 1 474 2100
Email: info@neprajz.hu
You can download the whole programme and more details about the conference in this e-book.
What's Up?! is the question we ask in What's Up?! EthnoConference for Directors of European Ethnographic Museums. The aim of the international conference, which will be accompanied by the opening and inaugural presentation of the new building and exhibitions of the Museum of Ethnography, is to present the changes that have taken place in recent years, the rethinking and renewal of the museum profession and ethnographic museums in terms of organisation, structure, content and, even more, physical and architectural aspects.
More than 20 directors of European ethnographic museums will speak about "what's going on?" or "What's Up?!" in their museums. The first major event of the newly inaugurated Museum of Ethnography in Budapest reveals the trends influencing the international museum world: what is the situation in the European institutions, why professionals have felt and feel the need for restructuring and rethinking, what is the role of an ethnographic museum in the 21st century and what role they should play in society.
One of the main aims of the conference is to launch an exchange of views on the processes, difficulties and opportunities involved in rethinking the organisation, the building or the exhibitions. Together we would like to create a European panorama of the changes that have taken place in recent years and the issues of ethnographic and anthropological museums in the 21st century.
The three-day professional conference will be the first of its kind to be held between 25 and 27 May 2022 in the conference room of the new building of the Museum of Ethnography on Dózsa György Street, bringing together not only the Hungarian but also the international museum profession.
Programme and registration: https://ethnoconference.neprajz.hu/
What’s Up?! EthnoConference
Conference of Directors of European Ethnographic Museums
24-28 May 2022
Bilingual conference free translation available on site
* Program subject to change!
Venue Dózsa György út – The new building of the Museum of Ethnography In the conference room of the new building of the Museum of Ethnography. Access from the Heroes' Square side (next to the City Park).
19:00 In the Hotel (Danubius Hotel Helia) Welcome cocktail & welcoming speech
10:00-13:00 – Opening Ceremony
Ceremonial opening of the new building and the temporary exhibition of the Museum of Ethnography entitled We have arrived.
13:00-14:30
lunch pause
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14:30-16:30 – What’s Up?! EthnoConference
At the crossroads of transitions - the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest (HU) Dr Lajos Kemecsi – Director-General, Museum of Ethnography, Hungary
Museum renovation for innovative and smart institutional growth (EN) Dr Goranka Horjan – Director-General, Ethnographic Museum Zagreb, Croatia
The MARKK in Motion - Successes and challenges in the repositioning of an ethnographic museum in Hamburg (EN) Prof. Dr Barbara Plankensteiner – Director-General, Museum am Rothenbaum, Kulturen und Künste der Welt (MARKK), Germany
Nordiska Museet in Stockholm: balancing between continuity and change (EN) Dr Sanne Houby-Nielsen – Director-General, Nordiska Museet, Sweden
Old Spaces, New Futures? Becoming a Pitt Rivers Museum that centres radical hope, repair and reconciliation. (EN) Prof. Dr Laura Van Broekhoven - Director, Pitt Rivers Museum, UK
& Discussion, Q&A
18:00 – Opening Ceremony
Opening ceremony of the ZOOM and Ceramic Space of the Museum of Ethnography.
from 8:30
Registration (during the day)
9:00-10:30
The museum at the time of crisis. Old problems and new challenges. (EN) Robert Zydel – Director-General, The National Museum of Ethnography, Poland
A New Project of the Slovak National Museum in Martin (EN) Branislav Panis – Director-General, Slovak National Museum, Slovakia Radovan Sýkora – Director, Ethnography Museum SNM Martin, Slovakia
Moving the ethnological collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin into the heart of the city (EN) Prof. Dr Lars-Christian Koch – Director-General, Humboldt Forum, Germany
10:30-11:00
coffee break
11:00-12:30
The New National in Finland – making space for a new way to be a National Museum (EN) Dr Elina Anttila – Director-General, The National Museum of Finland, Finland
Challenges of the new start. Re-launching Estonian National Museum concept in the new building (EN) Dr Kertu Saks – Director-General, Estonian National Museum, Estonia
Civilized and barbaric. Museums of ours, museums of others: Impassable borders in France (EN) Dr André Delpuech – Heritage conservationist, University professor, Researcher, EHESS, France
12:30-14:30
14:30-16:00
Ethnographic museums in the 21st century (EN) Ralf Čeplak Mencin – ICOM-ICME president, Slovene Ethnographic Museum, Slovenia
Museums for the 21st century – relevant, engaged and curated with the community (EN) Dr Ann Follin – Director-General, Världskulturmuseerna, Sweden
The MAS: the first decade of a glocal museum (EN) Dr Leen Beyers – Head of research and collections and curator, Museum aan de Stroom (MAS), Belgium
18:30 In the Gundel Restaurant
Dinner reception
9:00-10:45
Renovation of the AfricaMuseum (EN) Dr Bambi Ceuppens – anthropologist, AfricaMuseum, Belgium
Practicing transparency in becoming a network museum: REINVENTING GRASSI.SKD (EN) Léontine Meijer-van-Mensch – Director-General, Staatliche Ethnographische Sammlungen Sachsen, Germany
Global Milan. An innovative collection display between participation and controversy (EN & ONLINE) Dr. Carolina Orsini – Deputy Director, Head of Collections Department, MUDEC Museo delle Culture, Italy
Alimentarium’s Strategic Evolution 2021+: one experience – two platforms, developing audiences, communities and measuring success (EN) Dr Boris Wastiau – Director-General, Alimentarium, Switzerland
10:45-11:00
11:00-12:45
Preservation, accessibility, contemporaneity. The roles and responsibilities of ethnographic museums in the 21st century (HU) Dr Péter Granasztói – Deputy Director-General for Collections, Museum of Ethnography, Hungary
On the move again. Renewed knowledge mediation, public relations and communication in the Museum of Ethnography (HU) Dr Gábor Veres – Deputy Director-General, Museum of Ethnography, Hungary
Permanent and temporary: characteristics of the exhibition strategy of the Museum of Ethnography (HU) Dr Zsuzsanna Szarvas – Project leader, Museum of Ethnography, Hungary
Collections at a crossroad? (HU) Dr Veronika Schleicher– Head of Collections Department, Museum of Ethnography, Hungary
12:45-14:45
lunch break
15:00 Bus from Museum to Storage Centre
Guided tour in the National Conservation and Storage Centre
9:00-13:00 Open Air Museum Szentendre
Cultural program