• Date: July 2 - July 4 2015 
• Venue: Technische Universität Berlin, Raum HBS 005, Hardenbergstr. 16-18, 10623 Berlin

Nikolaus Bernau (Fellow Topoi)
Dr. Hans-Dieter Nägelke (Architekturmuseum Technische Universität Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy (Technische Universität Berlin)

Supported by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung

Public architectural competitions for museums in Europe, North America and the former colonies have been taken place sinde the middle of the 19th century. They became means for the self-expression of the civil society, its social and its political competition. The splendid drafts and errected buildings represent cultural, academic and artistic knowledge, national and regional pride. The international conference "Museum Envisioned" aims to serve as a platform for a dialogue on this insufficiently researched subject of the history of museums and architecture.

Gesamtprogramm

Artikel im Tagesspiegel

Museumswettbewerbe im Wandel der Zeit. Tagung in Berlin. Interview mit Bénédicte Savoy im Deutschlandradio Kultur. Hier

Thursday 2. Juli 2015

18:45  Welcome

19:00  Key Lecture: Giles Waterfield (London): Victorian Museums and Public Education in Great Britain and Europe

20:30  Reception

Friday 3 July 2015

9:00   Registration

9:45   Welcome: Bénédicte Savoy (Berlin) und Hans-Dieter Nägelke (Berlin)

10:00 Introduction: Nikolaus Bernau (Berlin), Moritz Dapper (Berlin), Mei-Hau Kunzi (Berlin und Merten Lagatz (Berlin): Die Berliner Museumsinsel-Konkurrenz von 1883/84 und Methoden der Wettbewerbsforschung.

Session I: Building Capitals and Raising the Provinces: Museum Competitions and City Development
Chair: Sven Kuhrau (Berlin) und Ilka Waßewitz (Berlin)

11:00 Harald R. Stühlinger (Zurich): Vom Großen ins Kleine, oder: Die städtebaulichen Vorschläge für museale Bauten im Wettbewerb zur Wiener Ringstraße bis zum Wettbewerb für die K. K. Hofmuseen.

11:45 Vadim Bass (St. Petersburg): Design Competitions for the Building Complex of Exhibitions, Congresses and Museums in the City Centre of St. Petersburg (1912/13) – Neoclassical Architecture for Beauty and Education.

12:30 Lunch Break

14:00 Julius Bryant (London): The Victoria and Albert Museum in Albertopolis – Prince Albert's Centre for Science and Art.

14:45 Phoebus Panigyraki (Athens): "Parks and their Relation to Public Buildings" – The Case of the Washington Mall as Museum-Cluster.

15:30 Ljerka Dulibic und Iva Pasini Tržec (Zagreb): Building the Cultural Capital of the New Nation – Zagreb's Museum Buildings at the Turn of the 19th to the 20th Century.

16:15 Coffee Break

16:45 Antje Schmidt (Hamburg): Regionale Museen und Wettbewerbe um 1900 – Das Altonaer Museum unter Otto Lehmann.

17:30 Arnaud Bertinent (Paris): Le Musée Napoleon d'Amiens: The First Built Museum of France

Saturday 4 July 2015

Session II. What Shapes Identity? Typologies of Museum Projects
Chair: Tino Mager (Berlin)

9:45  Ada Hajdu (Bucharest): The Projects for a "Museum of National Revival" in Sofia Bulgaria.

10:30 Milva Giacomelli (Florence): The Competition for the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities on Cairo 1894/95

11:15 Coffee Break

11:45 Julien Bastoen (Paris): The Unbuilt Luxembourg Museum – The Issue of a Purpuse-Built Museum of Modern Art in Paris before World War I.

12:15 Alan Crookham (London): New or Improved? The National Gallery Architectural Competition of 1866.

13:00 Lunch Break

Session III: Marking Territory! Museum Competitions and Geographic Space
Chair: Andrea Meyer (Berlin)

14:30 Claudia Cendales Paredes (Bogota): Museusmbauten und Museumswettbewerbe in Lateinamerika vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg

15:15 Jindrich Vybiral (Prague): Das Museum als Bau und Gegenbau. Museumsgebäude und -wettbewerbe in Prag, Budweis, Reichenberg und Pilsen

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 Martin Fröhlich (Münchenbuchsee / Switzerland): Das Schweizerische Landesmuseum in Zürich – Wunschbild, Abbild und Vorbild

17:15 Discussion
Chair: Nikolaus Bernau