Step into your time

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Paul A. Rostad

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Step into your time

Museums manage the past, but at the same time stand in the middle of the present, which is characterized by major societal changes: climate crisis, technological shifts, global conflicts, and questions of identity and belonging. How can research and mediation contribute to making museums relevant in the face of these challenges?

We welcome you to a conference that examines topicality as a scientific and communication driving force for museums. How can research and communication contribute to understanding and reflecting the present – and create space for critical reflection, engagement and dialogue with the public? We invite researchers, communicators and museum employees to shed light on how topicality can provide new perspectives on the missions of museums – and to reflect on the role of museums as knowledge institutions and social actors in our time. Do we have sustainability? Willingness?

Program

APRIL 16
9:00–11:00	Reception	Welcome and exploration of the museum
11:00–12:00	Auditorium	Registration and light lunch
12:00–12:15	Auditorium	Museumsdirektør, Frode Meinich, ønsker velkommen
12:15–1:15 p.m	Auditorium	Navigating dissensus: museums, polarisation and social change , Professor Richard Sandell (School of Heritage and Culture, University of Leicester and co-director of the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries)
1:15 p.m.–1:30 p.m	Mingle area	Break with coffee and tea
Kl. 13.30–14.05	Auditorium	Den vanskelige aktualiteten, Ole Aastad Bråten (Museumsdirektør Valdres musea)
Kl. 14.05–14.25	Auditorium	The Case of the Slovak National Gallery, Dušan Buran (Slovak National Gallery)
Kl. 14.25–15.25	Auditorium	"Case in your face" Conditions of Encounter: What Makes something real enough to matter?, Daria Klimasheva Experiential Learning and Making Museums Matter in Global Studies , Kristina Dziedzic Wright (The Africa Institute, Global Studies University) Exhibition work in Uncertain Times , Åshild Sunde Feyling Thorsen (University Museum of Bergen)
Kl. 15.25–16.00	Mingle area	Break with coffee, tea and pastries
Kl. 16.00–17.00	Auditorium	"Case in your face" Embodied Craft Practices: Museums as Sites of Learning , Marie Bønløkke (Ryfylkemuseet) Plastic fantastic or not? Contemporary material culture under challenge , Kirsten Linde (Akershus Museums) The response-able museum? Intergenerational co-creation with children and older adults , Gitte Bastiansen (Museum Vest)
Kl. 17.00–17.10	Mingle area	Pause
Kl. 17.10–18.00	Various	Tours
Kl. 18.00–21.00	Flyhallen	Pizza

Program

APRIL 17
8:30–9:00 a.m	Mingle area	Coffee, tea and pastries
9:00–9:45	Auditorium	Hvad er et bæredygtigt museum - Parametre, potentiale, sammenhæng , Anne Provst (museum director of MOSS - Museum for Supply and Sustainability and PhD candidate)
9:45–10:00	Mingle area	Break with coffee and tea
10:00–12:00	Auditorium	"Case in your face" session A «STREIK» - spill og aktivisering , Aleksander Breiby Herseth (Oslo Museum) Fra maleri til omsluttende installasjon - barns perspektiver i møte med Lars Hertervigs Gamle furutrær (1865) , Elin Lillebråten (Stavanger Art Museum) Leiren inn i en ny tid , Anne Torunn Braut (Jærmuseet) En moderne vikingtid – kunnskap, formidling og refleksjon , Christina Leverkus and Fredrik Bjønnes (Vestfold Museums) Hvalen husker, Atle Selnes Nielsen (Vestfold Museums)
10:00–12:00	Pusterommet	"Case in your face" session B Smarte bergensere? Baard Olav Skogrand , Bergen City Museum Bare se, men ikke røre? , Anne Eftevaag (Kunstsilo), Judith Seland Nilsen (Vest-Agder Museum), Therese Strupstad Hagen (Aust-Agder Museum and Archives) Barnas Museum, Erlend Tveite og Ingrid Fjellstad, (Vestfoldmuseene) Fortida er aktuell – museet som motkraft i ei tid prega av endringsjag , Signe Bondhus-Jensen and Åsne Dolve Meyer (Kraftmuseet) Unge kritikere: «Hvordan vet du det? Øvelser i kildekritikk og deltagelse i uenighetsfellesskap, Ellen Asplin og Ulla Nachtstern (Vestfoldmuseene)
12:00–12:15	Mingle area	Pause
12:15–12:30	Auditorium	Summary
12:30–	Mingle area	Shared lunch