TALK "Museum of the Future" Episode I: The Force Awakens at British Council, 17, Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 17th & 18th March 2017

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17th March : 7:00 pm Add to Calendar 17/03/2017 19:00 17/03/2017 20:30 Asia/Kolkata TALK "Museum of the Future" Episode I: The Force Awakens Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2017/03/talk-museum-of-future-episode-i-force.html British Council, 17, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001 DD/MM/YYYY
18th March : 11:00 am Add to Calendar 18/03/2017 11:00 18/03/2017 12:30 Asia/Kolkata TALK "Museum of the Future" Episode I: The Force Awakens Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2017/03/talk-museum-of-future-episode-i-force.html British Council, 17, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001 DD/MM/YYYY

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Event Description : TALK "Museum of the Future" Episode I: The Force Awakens

Friday, 17 March 2017, 19:00
Siddhartha Hall, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan
With: Prof. Dr. Christoph Menke and Shuddhabrata Sengupta
Moderated by: Dr. Leonhard Emmerling

Saturday, 18 March 2017, 11:00
Library, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan
With: Dr. Jan Völker and Dr. Christine Litz
Moderated by: Prof. Kavita Singh

Museums can be perceived as treasure houses, educational institutions or epistemic machines. They need to meet a set of diverse tasks: outreach, storage, education, display, research etc. They have to reach out to the young and the old, the initiated and the non-initiated, the wealthy and the poor, the people from its vicinity and foreigners coming from afar. What the past of a region, a country, a nation may have been gets told in the museum. How the sciences, the acquisition and use of knowledge have changed becomes visible in the museum. Which changes in taste, values and stylistic preferences have occurred through the centuries, all this becomes evident in the museum. It invents the history it is supposed to preserve and narrates episodes of a past it constructs in the very same moment.

What will the museum of the future offer to its audiences? And what will the audiences require from the museum?

The museum of the future will be an event-location; a place for entertainment and fun; a place to meditate and contemplate; a place of joy and laughter and to experience silence or awe. In addition, the museum of the future can be a place of teaching and learning, of affirmation and opposition, of agreement and protest, of compliance and disagreement, of pleasure and rejection. But, most importantly, the museum of the future will be a political space.

It will be a public space, an agora, used by the citizens to debate and to discuss. It will be a space where emancipated subjects meet and dispute on how to find ways to narrate the stories of their past and of their future.

What needs to be done, to establish the museum as a political space? How to conceive the museum as an institution to serve the citizenry? What do we think of, when we think about the “political”? And how does the museum engage with the idea of freedom and emancipation?

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