Tidsskriftet Periskop inviterer skribenter til at bidrage med artikler, anmeldelser og essays til nr. 23 med temaet Museet som akademisk læringsrum.
Call’et henvender sig især til undervisere og forskere på universiteter og museer samt til forskere i pædagogik og didaktik, der er involveret i eller interesserer sig for museernes verden.
Museums’ statistics internationally show that men are under-represented as visitors in public museums, except for war museums and technical museums. Men are however statistically over-represented in museum collections and networks as e.g. artists, directors, benefactors and as re-enactors in historical re-enactments and living museums. The starting point for our interest is not that these statistics are necessarily problematic, or to identify ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ within museum use. Rather we wish to identify and discuss potential qualitative differences in how different sexes use museums and how museums communicate (intentionally and un-intentionally) with the gender of the visitor. By focusing on ‘how men use museums’ we want to draw attention to a hitherto neglected research area in regard to uses of the past and add to existing research results.
Confirmed speakers and discussants
Theano Moussouri, Senior Lecturer in Museum Studies, University of London, UK
John Falk, Executive Director, Institute for Learning Innovation, Sea Grant Professor Emeritus of Free-Choice Learning Oregon State University, USA
Svend Åge Madsen, psychologist, Head of research at Klinik for Psykologi, Pædagogik og Socialrådgivning at Rigshospitalet, DK
Julie Rokkjær Birch, Museum Curator, Kvindemuseet (Women’s Museum), DK
Marianne Grymer Bargemann, Head of Learning and Interpretation, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, DK
Hans Dam Christensen, Professor, School of Information Studies, Copenhagen University, DK
Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam, Associate Professor and project coordinator for the research unit on Sexuality Studies Aarhus University, DK
René Schrøder Christensen, Head of Research and Collections, PhD, Jernbanemuseet (the Danish Railway Museum)
Dansk Center for Museumsforskning
Aalborg Universitet
Institut for Kommunikation
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Om Dansk Center for Museumsforskning
Dansk Center for Museumsforskning er et center uden mure for danske universiteter og højere læreanstalter. Det består af centrale institutter, som bedriver museumsforskning.
Museumsforskning forstås bredt som et forskningsfelt, der omfatter museer, arkiver samt aktivitetscentre inden for eksempelvis naturvidenskab og teknik. Feltet omfatter således forskning i kunst, kultur- og naturarv samt i formidling af denne arv i forhold til fysiske og virtuelle rum.