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SUMMARY:Does the Museum Just Preserve the Museum? - Speaker to be confirme
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DTSTART:20141212T090000Z
DTEND:20141212T180000Z
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DESCRIPTION:This conference is the culmination of a series of events durin
 g 2015 in which the University of Cambridge Museums have explored the art 
 and science of museum curation. It brings together a wide range of speaker
 s to take a long hard look at what museums do\, what they should do\, and 
 what they might do. We will explore the ways in which what museums do is e
 nabled and limited by their history and the history of collecting\, asking
  whether and how museums can use their collections to transcend time. We w
 ill explore the constraints placed on museums by national history and how 
 they contest natural history. We will think about museums as installations
  and museums as laboratories. And we will ask how healthy is the pressure 
 to make visitors love their experiences in museums. Have museums failed or
  succeeded if some people hate them?\n\nThis is a conference designed both
  to celebrate and to question what we do in museums and what museums do to
  us\, and to ask what the future should hold for the museum and what the m
 useum should hold for the future.
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 
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