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	Museum director, Frode Meinich, welcomes you
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
1:30 p.m.–2:05 p.m	Auditorium	The difficult current affairs, Ole Aastad Bråten (Museum Director Valdres musea)
2:05 PM–2:25 PM	Auditorium	The Case of the Slovak National Gallery, Dušan Buran (Slovak National Gallery)
2:25 p.m.–3:25 p.m	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)
3:25 PM–4:00 PM	Mingle area	Break with coffee, tea and pastries
4:00 PM–5:00 PM	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)
5:00 PM–5:10 PM	Mingle area	Pause
5:10 PM–6:00 PM	Various	Tours
6:00 PM–9:00 PM	Flyhallen	Pizza

Program

APRIL 17
8:30–9:00 a.m	Mingle area	Coffee, tea and pastries
9:00–9:45	Auditorium	What is a sustainable museum - Parameters, potential, context, 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" - games and activation, Aleksander Breiby Herseth (Oslo Museum) From painting to immersive installation - children's perspectives in encounter with Lars Hertervig's Old Pine Trees (1865), Elin Lillebråten (Stavanger Art Museum) The camp into a new era, Anne Torunn Braut (Jærmuseet) A modern Viking Age – knowledge, dissemination and reflection, Christina Leverkus and Fredrik Bjønnes (Vestfold Museums) The Whale Remembers, Atle Selnes Nielsen (Vestfold Museums)
10:00–12:00	Pusterommet	"Case in your face" session B Smarte bergensere?Baard Olav Skogrand, Bergen City Museum Just look, but don't touch?, Anne Eftevaag (Kunstsilo), Judith Seland Nilsen (Vest-Agder Museum), Therese Strupstad Hagen (Aust-Agder Museum and Archives) The Children's Museum, Erlend Tveite and Ingrid Fjellstad, (Vestfold Museums) The past is current – the museum as a counterforce in a time characterized by the drive for change, Signe Bondhus-Jensen and Åsne Dolve Meyer (Kraftmuseet) Young critics: "How do you know? Exercises in source criticism and participation in communities of disagreement," Ellen Asplin and Ulla Nachtstern (Vestfold Museums)
12:00–12:15	Mingle area	Pause
12:15–12:30	Auditorium	Summary
12:30–	Mingle area	Shared lunch