402 search results for “indigenous artefact in museum collections” in the Student website
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LeidenGlobal Dialogues - Egyptian Mummified Remains in Museums
Lecture
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Trends in museums: ‘A lot of museums have a dormant collection of pre-colonial art’
What effect do trends in the art world have on the formation of museum collections? University lecturer Martin Berger wants to answer that question in his research within the Museums, Collections and Society project, which asks ethical questions about the origin of collections.
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Susanne Boersma
Susanne Boersma is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for the Arts in Society. She has worked as a museum curator in Berlin and the UK and always finds ways to combine research and museum practice. At Leiden University, she is part of the Museum Lab.
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Fang-I ChuFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Raphaël Gerssen
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Martin BergerFaculty of Archaeology
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Theatres and museums
In the centre of Leiden there are thirteen museums, all within walking distance of each other. Leiden is also home to the oldest theatre in the Netherlands, the Leidse Schouwburg. The Hague on the other hand has no less than thirty museums in and around the city, as well as a wealth of theatres. So…
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Lucas da Costa MacielFaculty of Archaeology
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Werkbezoek ‘Werken in een museum’
Career and apply for jobs
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Caroline Fernandes CaromanoFaculty of Humanities
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Willem van WijkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Crammed with meaning: what museum collections tell us about our political system
What does a 19th-century exhibition of traditional utensils from the province of Zeeland tell us about the current rise of populism? A lot, Ad Maas will say in his inaugural lecture.
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Laurie Kalb CosmoFaculty of Humanities
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Elizabeth Rodriguez EstradaFaculty of Archaeology
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Laurie Cosmo: ‘Dutch museums are very innovative’
The plan was to research the years surrounding the creation of the signature H.P. Berlage building of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, but due to the lockdown, University Lecturer Laurie Kalb Cosmo has hardly been able to visit museums. Yet she succeeds in continuing her research for the Museums, Collections…
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Csilla ArieseFaculty of Humanities
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Stalin Sarango FloresFaculty of Science
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Women collecting the Middle East: collaborators and collections
Who assembled the collections of museums? The answer to this question seems to point to men as collectors. Apart from for rare exceptions, female collectors hardly seem to exist. Yet there were indeed women collectors. For the project Museums, Collections and Society, researcher Holly O'Farrell will…
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Carel’s Universe: Leiden museums depict Carel Stolker’s rectorship
Ten Leiden museums and heritage institutions have curated the online exhibition ‘Carel’s Universe’. They selected objects from their collections that symbolise retiring Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker and the research in Leiden. With direct references, playful associations and the odd nod and wink.
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Professor Pieter ter Keurs: 'People collect to function'
Professor Pieter ter Keurs has spent his entire career studying collecting. Now, he is retiring. ‘I hope the focus on collections will carry on.’
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Tommy van AvermaeteLeiden University Libraries
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Ad Maas appointed professor by special appointment: 'Exhibiting scientific research is at the cutting edge of museology
On 1 September, Ad Maas, curator of Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, was appointed professor by special appointment. In this role, he will primarily focus on the representation of natural sciences in museums.
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Our perspective on history is changing and our museums are changing too
Museums have long focused on power, wealth and a few famous figures. But that is changing, says Valika Smeulders, head of the history department at the Rijksmuseum. What this change comprises and how it has come about is the subject of her keynote speech at the D&I Symposium on 11 January.
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More than just blue domes and camels: new Louvre film on Uzbek artefacts
Terracotta pottery, precious ikat fabrics and the bazaars where these goods are sold: all these can be seen in a new Louvre film premiering on Friday 9 December. University lecturer Elena Paskaleva collaborated on the film Uzbekistan a timeless journey in Central Asia about Uzbek artefacts.
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Myfel PalugaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Diana Davila Gordillo
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Locations SSH labs
Our research studies take place at different locations.
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Mariana FrançozoFaculty of Archaeology
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Adriana Churampi RamirezFaculty of Humanities
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Andrea RagragioFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Depot or place of honour: what to do with Nobel laureates in the museum?
What do you do with a museum collection full of individual white Nobel laureates at a time when diversity, inclusion and teamwork reign supreme? Ad Maas, professor by special appointment, and researcher Hilbrand Wouters have been awarded an NWO Museum grant to answer that question.
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Marika KeblusekFaculty of Humanities
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Why looted art lawsuits often fail (and what can be done about this)
There are as good as no clear rules for the return of stolen art. This means that rather than in court, many cases are decided in the political arena instead. In her PhD research Evelien Campfens suggests how this could change. PhD defence on 11 November.
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Rethinking the Wereldmuseum Leiden through Indigeneity and Contemporary Art
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Elmer VeldkampFaculty of Humanities
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An inspired museum director: student Anne Kremers
Anne Kremers (1989) still has to complete her thesis in Art History, but she is already director of a museum. After following an internship at Villa Mondriaan, in September 2013 she took over the position of the oldest museum director of the Netherlands, becoming in the process the youngest museum director…
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Jan JansenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Pieter ter KeursFaculty of Humanities
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Gabriel Spautz VieiraFaculty of Archaeology
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Advice to EU on looted art claims: ‘An agency could bring order to the legal chaos’
What practical steps can we take to resolve cross-border claims to looted art and prevent illicit trafficking in cultural goods? That's what the European Parliament asked Leiden legal scholar Evelien Campfens. Her advice: develop a registration system, issue art with a ‘passport’ and set up a European…
- Forgotten heroes
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Maarten JansenFaculty of Archaeology
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Charlotte BoinFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Curator Ruurd Halbertsma: ‘Surely we can’t just sweep away antiquity?’
Like many others, Ruurd Halbertsma has had a rollercoaster of a year. His museum, the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO), was closed for a long while because of the lockdown. Visitor numbers picked up again from September, but it the next few weeks will be tense now the hospitals are full again. Halbertsma:…
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Discover 450 years of parades at Museum De Lakenhal
The exhibition Leiden celebrates – 450 years of parades at Museum De Lakenhal shows how parades and society have changed through the centuries. Alumnus and historian Danielle van Goethem worked on the exhibition. She gives a preview.
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Karin de WildFaculty of Humanities
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Gina van LingFaculty of Humanities
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Lydia van de FliertFaculty of Archaeology
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Guus Heerma van VossFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Claire Perrette
Faculty of Archaeology