Week 10: WEDNESDAY 3.15pm by David https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_315pm National Museums: the National Museum of Australia/Shanghai Museum/National Museum of China, Beijing en-us 2018-03-22 21:38:42 UTC 2020-04-27 01:42:36 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png GROUP 1 walker_g https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_315pm/wish/359812733
Ø  What should be the key features and roles of the contemporary national museum?

Ø  How should these specific roles be reflected in the nature of its collections/programs? (e.g. specific programs/areas/exhibitions)
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Ø  How do national museums differ/relate to other kinds of museums – e.g. state/regional/other national museums/galleries – and how have they changed over time?]]> 2019-05-14 09:29:27 UTC https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_315pm/wish/359812812 GROUP 3 walker_g https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_315pm/wish/359812887
Ø  How can museums represent national ‘identity’? What is the best way to express this in a museum? And to what extent is it possible, for example, to tackle contentious or political issues?]]> 2019-05-14 09:29:48 UTC https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_315pm/wish/359812887 GROUP 4 walker_g https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_315pm/wish/359812948
Ø  Analyse the architecture and installations of the National Museum of China and National Museum of Australia in Google Art Project and on their websites – are they effective/appealing? How do they compare with the Shanghai Museum?

National Museum of Australia
https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/national-museum-of-australia-galleries/5wF161fenKUT5w?sv_h=0&sv_p=0&sv_pid=hjUXZlgZMgha7_LQ7II1tA&sv_lid=13174458512189543304&sv_lng=149.12097762781764&sv_lat=-35.29390114312458&sv_z=1.8364850016658516

National Museum of China, Beijing
http://en.chnmuseum.cn
https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m047d5yv

Shanghai Museum
https://www.shanghaimuseum.net/museum/frontend/en/index.action]]> 2019-05-14 09:30:08 UTC https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_315pm/wish/359812948 Imagine that you have international friends coming to visit you in your home country - your have planned to take them to your local national museum as a means of filling them in on your country's national history/identity - how would you do this in the museum? What things would you highlight? Is the museum helpful - or not - in informing your friends about your country's history/identity? https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_315pm/wish/360143358 [Note - of course you may feel free to critique the basis of this question - e.g. whose 'country' are we speaking of? Who is speaking on whose behalf? Do you need to be 'Australian' or 'Chinese' to understand the essence of that country's national museum? etc....]]]> 2019-05-15 00:17:51 UTC https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_315pm/wish/360143358 MacDonald, 2003: “A crucial question for museums today concerns their role in a world in which nation-statist identities are being challenged. Are they too inextricably entangled in ‘old’ forms of identity to to able to express ‘new’ ones?” https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_315pm/wish/360145208 Can you think of any museums/exhibitions that are actually grappling with this question?]]> 2019-05-15 00:25:57 UTC https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_315pm/wish/360145208 Porciani, 2015 argues that History Museums now increasingly need to address previously suppressed histories of “multiple voices of different witnesses, be they immigrants or survivors, colonized peoples, subaltern, minorities, natives or people once described as history-less because of their race, origins of social or gender inferiority, are now increasingly present in museums” https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_315pm/wish/360145726 Can you think of any museums/exhibitions that are actually attempting to do this?]]> 2019-05-15 00:29:08 UTC https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_315pm/wish/360145726 The readings highlight some critical problems faced by those developing national museum exhibitions - they include the following: https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_315pm/wish/360147657 A tendency to 'essentialise' culture/identity

A tendency to 'depoliticise' culture/identity

A tendency to assume too much prior background/shared cultural knowledge on the part of the visitor

Can you see these issues at play in any of the museums you are looking at?]]> 2019-05-15 00:38:14 UTC https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_315pm/wish/360147657