The word museology can be defined as museum studies which encompass research into musealisation processes such as the collection, registration, preservation and interpretation of cultural and natural heritage. The Centre for Museology is made up of researchers from Aarhus University and other institutions.
What we have in common is that we deal in very different ways with how society, currently and historically, selects, institutionalises and communicates the values and objects that people wish to preserve as a common cultural and natural heritage.
Several of the centre’s researchers have an art-historical background. Other researchers come from classical archaeology, dramaturgy, education, business communication, CAVI, language programmes, etc.
We also collaborate with museum-related programs at Aarhus University on e.g. research seminars, and we welcome other scholars with an interest in the history, methodology and subject matter of museology.
The researchers at the Centre for Museology share a research-based interest in the museum as a social organisation as well as in its communication with the outside world viewed in a historical and contemporary perspective.
A number of the centre’s researchers share an interest in developing models for research projects in collaboration with external partners, e.g. universities, museums, primary and upper secondary schools and different cultural institutions.
The purpose of the centre is to initiate new research projects, seminars, study circles, conferences, study trips and publications related to museological research at Aarhus University. In this context, the centre focuses in particular on exploring and developing funding opportunities for museological research. The participants in the Centre for Museology are concerned with these themes:
The Centre for Museology collaborates with a wide range of universities, cultural institutions and museums. Read more under Network and Education.
