Museum Envisioned | Iamge: Wettberwerb Museumsinsel Berlin (1883/84), Entwurf Schmidt und enckelmann, Copyright: Architekturmuseum Berlin

Public architectural competitions for museums in Europe, North America and the former colonies have been taken place since the middle of the 19th century. They became means for the self-expression of the civil society, its social and its political competition. The splendid drafts and errected buildings represent cultural, academic and artistic knowledge, national and regional pride. The international conference “Museum Envisioned” served as a platform for a dialogue on this insufficiently researched subject of the history of museums and architecture.

 

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Program

2.7.2015
18:45 - 19:00
Welcome
19:00 - 20:30
Victorian Museums and Public Education in Great Britain and Europe
Key Lecture
Giles Waterfield
20:30 - 21:30
Reception
3.7.2015
09:00 - 09:45
Registration
09:45 - 10:00
Welcome
Hans-Dieter Nägelke
Bénédicte Savoy
10:00 - 11:00
Introduction: Die Berliner Museumsinsel-Konkurrenz von 1883/84 und Methoden der Wettbewerbsforschung
Nikolaus Bernau
Moritz Dapper
Mei-Hau Kunzi
Merten Lagatz
11:00 - 11:45
Vom Großen ins Kleine, oder: Die städtebaulichen Vorschläge für museale Bauten im Wettbewerb zur Wiener Ringstraße bis zum Wettbewerb für die K. K. Hofmuseen
Harald R. Stühlinger
11:45 - 12:30
Design Competitions for the Building Complex of Exhibitions, Congresses and Museums in the City Centre of St. Petersburg (1912/13) – Neoclassical Architecture for Beauty and Education
Vadim Bass
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:45
The Victoria and Albert Museum in Albertopolis – Prince Albert's Centre for Science and Art
Julius Bryant
14:45 - 15:30
"Parks and their Relation to Public Buildings" – The Case of the Washington Mall as Museum-Cluster
Phoebus Panigyraki
15:30 - 16:15
Building the Cultural Capital of the New Nation – Zagreb's Museum Buildings at the Turn of the 19th to the 20th Century
Ljerka Dulibic
Iva Pasini Tržec
16:15 - 16:45
Coffee Break
16:45 - 17:30
Regionale Museen und Wettbewerbe um 1900 – Das Altonaer Museum unter Otto Lehmann
Antje Schmidt
17:30 - 18:15
Le Musée Napoleon d'Amiens: The First Built Museum of France
Arnaud Bertinent
4.7.2015
09:30 - 09:45
Welcome, Introduction
09:45 - 10:30
The Projects for a "Museum of National Revival" in Sofia Bulgaria
Ada Hajdu
10:30 - 11:15
The Competition for the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities on Cairo 1894/95
Milva Giacomelli
11:15 - 11:45
Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:15
The Unbuilt Luxembourg Museum – The Issue of a Purpuse-Built Museum of Modern Art in Paris before World War I
Julien Bastoen
12:15 - 13:00
New or Improved? The National Gallery Architectural Competition of 1866
Alan Crookham
13:00 - 14:30
Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:15
Museusmbauten und Museumswettbewerbe in Lateinamerika vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg
Claudia Cendales Paredes
15:15 - 16:00
Das Museum als Bau und Gegenbau. Museumsgebäude und -wettbewerbe in Prag, Budweis, Reichenberg und Pilsen
Jindrich Vybiral
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:15
Das Schweizerische Landesmuseum in Zürich – Wunschbild, Abbild und Vorbild
Martin Fröhlich
17:15 - 18:00
Discussion