Prof. Sharon Macdonald, Director of the Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, will give the Schöne Lecture 2024 at the Technische Universität Berlin on November 21, 2024. The Schöne Lecture is organized annually by the Institute of Art History and Historical Urban Studies at TU Berlin and the Richard Schöne Society for Museum History. With her lecture “Which Museum Histories?”, Sharon Macdonald will further deepen the topic of museum history in terms of cultural theory with a view to museums and cultural heritage.
The event in the evening is both the highlight and conclusion of a conference at which experts will reflect on the concrete significance of museum history at three locations in three afternoon panels: in academic teaching and training, in museum practice and in public discourse.
The occasion of the conference is the 30th anniversary of the Richard Schöne Society for Museum History. Since 1994, it has been committed to historical research into the institution of the museum and continues to provide new space and impetus for this. The association would like to use this anniversary in 2024 to ask questions about the history of museum history itself and to debate the current relevance of museum history.
The lecture will be held in English. Admission is free.
Date:
The lecture and discussion event will take place on Thursday, November 21, 2024, from 12:30 pm to 6:15 pm. Afterwards, Prof. Dr. Sharon Macdonald will give the Schöne Lecture 2024 from 7 to 9 pm.
Venue:
Technical University of Berlin
Large Senate Hall (H1035)
Main building, 1st floor
Street of June 17, 135
10623 Berlin
An event organized by the Richard-Schöne-Gesellschaft für Museumsgeschichte e.V. on the occasion of its 30th anniversary in cooperation with the Technische Universität Berlin, sponsored by the Richard Stury-Stiftung and Ursula Eckert-Stiftung.