Monday, May 13, 5:30 p.m., screening room Warszawa
Meeting: Museums Revisited
after the screening of the film HOMECOMING, dir. Suvi West i Anssi Kömi
Partner: Department of Ethnography of the National Museum in Gdańsk – founder of the ETNOMATOGRAF award for the best ethnographic and anthropological film
The film “Homecoming” will serve as an invitation to discuss the issues, challenges and ideas that shape both former and present-day museums, with a particular emphasis on the ethical concerns associated with the presence in collections of artefacts stolen or otherwise appropriated during the colonial era. At the same time, Suvi West's film will also be a pretext to dwell on a more general question: what is cultural heritage in the 21st century?
Guest:
dra Magdalena Wróblewska – art historian, museum curator and museologist, involved in research on the decolonisation of museums. Assistant Professor of Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw, acting director of the State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw. She is interested in the theory and methodology of art research, postcolonial theory, and current trends in the new humanities (especially the shift towards objects and materiality).
Host:
Krystyna Weiher-Sitkiewicz – film educator, meeting moderator, anthropologist, and exhibition curator. Curator at the Department of Ethnography of the National Museum in Gdańsk.
