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SUMMARY:Arctic Museum Cultures: A Critical Perspective on Heritage Practic
 es in/about the North - Liz Walsh and Morgan Ip\, postdoctoral researchers
 \, ERC Arctic Cultures Project\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Emilie Canova
DESCRIPTION:As heritage institutions in metropolitan centres in the UK\, U
 S\, and other colonial nations respond to calls for equity and the repatri
 ation of material culture\, museums in previously colonised nations have s
 ought their own paths forward. We will discuss fieldwork carried out acros
 s multiple sites in Greenland\, comparing the variety of local and nationa
 l narratives\, curatorial logics\, and stated missions encountered in the 
 institutions we visited. We will consider the work different kinds of muse
 ums understand themselves to do\, and the audiences museums understand the
 mselves to be for. In light of conversations with curators and community m
 embers\, we will question whether museums are useful institutions in the 2
 1st century Arctic and ask what Arctic museum futures might look like. Fin
 ally\, we will discuss the process of staging the current exhibition Arcti
 c Cultures: Collections and Imaginations\, sharing our own visions of the 
 future of critical museum practice.
LOCATION:Hybrid: Seminar room\, SPRI &amp\; Zoom - email organiser for det
 ails
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