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Fakultät: Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
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Professur:
Professur für Denkmalkunde
Professurinhaber:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. P. Paul Zalewski
Projekttitel:
A research to the development of museology as a science in the former GDR and other Central European countries and its resonance in museological theory building in Western Europe, case study: Reinwardt Academy
Projektleitung:
Leontine. Meijer-van Mensch
Projektart: Promotion
BetreuerIn der Promotion: Prof. Dr. -Ing. P. Paul Zalewski
Finanzierung: Sonstiges
Projektbeginn: 01.05.2011
Projektbeschreibung in deutsch:
It can be argued that museum work had developed into a well defined profession by the end of the 19th century. The creation of professional associations, the publication of professional journals and handbooks, the foundation of curatorial training courses, and the adoption of professional codes of ethics provided the parameters of professionalism. This professionalization discourse however was very strongly dominated by the different subject matter discipline discourses. Most museum professionals considered themselves primarily as belonging to their specific subject matter discipline and museology was mostly merely seen as a support discipline. The modern development of museology as a science has mainly taken place in Central Europe in the second half of the twentieth century. The new regimes in Central Europe needed a new museum language and museological theory. It can be argued that due to the establishment (in 1976) of the International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM) the specific Central European approaches in museology became known to the rest of the museological world. This PhD research wants to focus on the museological discourse in Central Europe and in the GDR, particular before 1989. This study wants to examine how this Central European discourse influenced museological theory and development in Western Europe at the Reinwardt Academy (Amsterdam School of the Arts) in particular. This study also wants to research how and in what way the GDR reflected on the museological discourse at the Reinwardt Academy. Many texts that played a key role in the curriculum of the Reinwardt Academy were translated into German and published. In addition several museological study travels took place from the GDR to the Netherlands and vice versa. How did these international museological transfers take place and what was the role of the international committees of ICOM in this? In the unified Germany after 1989, there was neither place, nor interest for a GDR initiated museology anymore. However, present day social developments in Germany (as well as in other European countries) require new approaches to the underpinning of museum practice, which brings about a renewed interest in the museological discourses of the 1960s-1980s. This study wants to contribute to a deeper understanding of the creation and exchange of scientific theories between different ideological systems.