The 2nd International Scientific Meeting promoted by the Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (MuCEM) has taken place in Marseille on 5-7 December 2013.
Two years after the first conference, investigating the transformations and general challenges of ethnographic and civilization museums, this second symposium was aimed at exploring the ways museums deal with contemporary objects and issues related to an increasingly globalized, virtualized and technologically connected world, where the ways of being together and the ways people share the same time and space are being deeply reshaped.
Through the contribution of a rich international panel of participants, the conference has provided an interesting overview on the different strategies and practices which are being experimented in order to redefine the museums’ role and missions, in the creation and transmission of knowledge about present societies, in the management of the connected risks, responsibilities and inquiries, and in the aware construction of a link between the cultural heritage of the past, the present and the future.
The conference programme was articulated according to three main themes. The first day was focused on the redefinition of the concept of cultural heritage: the session “Contemporain pour toujours? / Forever contemporary?” was aimed at questioning who decides, for whom and with what criteria, if a contemporary object deserves to be a part of the cultural heritage. In a context in which time is rendering objects more and more quickly obsolete, at what extent should the museum collect them in order to prevent their disappearance or extinction?
The second conference day was dedicated to the contextualization and de-contextualization of objects in museums. The session “À quelle distance placer le contemporain? / Finding the right distance” was intended to reflect on the new ways to display objects in the contemporary context, that is so close to us – chronologically, emotionally and symbolically – and
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The third day was intended to focus on “Des musées témoins, acteurs ou activists? / Which role for the museum: witness, actor, activist?” The session addressed the place of museums in the world of today, as far as concerns their scientific and cultural policy and their wider political mission, by questioning the attitude they can or should assume, the commitment towards communities and territories, and their approach to contemporary topics.
The MeLa Project has participated to the International Conference through the engagement of the Project Coordinator, Prof. Luca Basso Peressut, who contributed as member of the Scientific Committee and gave a presentation exploring “Scenography and Architecture: The Case of Memorials and War Museums”.
