What is wrong with Museums in Turkey?

According to the official narrative, the history of Turkish museums goes back to 1846, suggesting a degree of maturity somewhat comparable to similar Western institutions. While there certainly is some truth to this argument, a closer and more critical look reveals the existence of a number of structural weaknesses and biases that still continue to plague Turkish museology. Among these, self-containment, the need to “respond” to the West, and subservience to ideological and political goals are the most blatant, which this talk proposes to discuss through a critical reassessment of Ottoman and Turkish museology.

Edhem Eldem is a professor at the Department of History of Bogaziçi University, Istanbul. He has also taught at Berkeley, Harvard, Columbia, EHESS, ENS, and has been a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. His fields of interest include the Levant trade, funerary epigraphy, late-nineteenth-century Istanbul, the Ottoman Bank, Ottoman first-person narratives, Ottoman photography, and the history of archaeology in the Ottoman lands.

Der Schöne-Vortrag ist eine Vortragsreihe zu aktuellen Thesen und Forschungen im Bereich der Museumsgeschichte. Die Veranstaltung beruht auf der Kooperation des Fachgebiets Kunstgeschichte der Moderne und

• der Richard Schöne Gesellschaft für Museumsgeschichte (mehr [8])
• dem Forum Kunst und Markt (mehr [9])

Die Vorträge finden jährlich im Herbst an der TU Berlin statt.
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TU Berlin, Architekturgebäude
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10623 Berlin
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