Conferences & Seminars
In keeping with its objectives, the Pôle muséal & culturel aims to raise questions rather than provide ready-made answers. One of its missions is therefore to stimulate in-depth reflection on missions, mediation practices, collections and so on. With this in mind, the Pôle muséal regularly organizes conferences and seminars.
Interrogating the university museum and its boundaries
International symposium (Liège - November 9 to 10, 2021)
In the world of museums, university collections occupy a special place. Born of and linked to the missions of research and teaching, they are destined a priori to be immediately activated in laboratories, classrooms or seminars. Over time, collections have acquired a heritage dimension, becoming historical witnesses to a certain relationship with the world. In this way, they also enable everyone to understand the human adventure that is science, and to relate it to other ways of producing knowledge.
The colloquium on November 9 and 10 aims to open up the debate on university heritage and to enrich our thinking by drawing on external experience and proposals. The meeting will address the complex issue of the specific nature of scientific and artistic collections (whether museumized or not) within a university, and the relationship between these collections and research, teaching and service to society. The boundaries of the university museum and its contiguities will be examined.
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University museums and their audiences
International symposium (Liège - November 5 to 7, 2019)
Since the beginning of the 21st century, university museums have been enjoying a veritable revival of interest. University stakeholders are keen to give new meaning to their museum structures, and are expressing the need for official recognition by the international community of museum professionals.
Today's university museums are still visited by too few people. This prompts us to take the opportunity of this symposium to assess the reasons for this observation, and to question the contemporary practices of our university institutions: elitist discourse? dusty scenography? inadequate means of communicating with the public? collections that are too little known and heterogeneous?
The aim of this symposium is to encourage universities and collection managers to think globally about their policies for welcoming the public.
