Centre for Museology is an open centre collaborating with many different institutions and organisations. We are part of the interdisciplinary research programme Historical Studies of Art Litterature and Culture, HISTAC.
Other of our collaborations are formalised through networks. Here we are part of CultureSustain, Danish Centre for Museum Research and the House Museum Network. In addition, we collaborate with relevant Danish and foreign industry associations such as the Intrface association, the Organisation of Danish Museums (ODM), ICOM – International Council of Museums and Museum Intermediaries in Denmark (MID).
Members of the Centre for Museology participate as active members of the research programme Historical Studies of Arts and Culture (HISTAC).
The research programme has participants from the aesthetic subjects at Arts, Aarhus University. Together and through interdisciplinary collaboration, history is examined in a number of aesthetic and cultural practices such as art, literature, theatre, music, museology, cultural heritage, etc.
HISTAC aims to support, develop and make visible historical and historiographical research with special focus on interdisciplinary, interaesthetic and comparative perspectives. Through the historical focus, HISTAC wishes to create academic synergies between various historical studies of art forms and cultures, studies of historiographical issues, as well as materiality, mental history, art institutional, political history, etc. One of the aims is to develop the outreach dimension of historical studies.
is an DFF exploratory network in the period 2022-2025. The purpose of the Scandinavian based museum research network is to bring together theory-driven and practice-based research environments in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in order to jointly exchange experiences and knowledge about how Danish, Norwegian and Swedish museums by collecting and disseminating knowledge play an important role in a society's cultural sustainability.
Cultural sustainability complements the three classical pillars (economic, social and environmental sustainability) with a fourth dimension. The concept is by no means unambiguous, but can among other things be described as the kit that binds the other understandings together. Furthermore, there are limited empirical museum studies on cultural sustainability, and absolutely none about the Scandinavian museums.
One of the objectives of the network is therefore to qualify the concept of cultural sustainability on the basis of different disciplines across universities and museums, and to investigate the significance of the museums' core tasks for cultural sustainability in the three countries, and whether the concept can serve as a culturally and methodologically measurable parameter for the museums' performance of tasks.
is a centre without walls for Danish universities and institutions of higher education.
It consists of central institutes that conduct museum research. Professor Ane Hejlskov Larsen from Centre for Museology is in the centre's steering committee and has co-organised several seminars, most recently on ICOM's museum definition from 2022, which was held at University of Southern Denmark (SDU) in 2023.
Centre for Museology is part of a network partnership with the House Museum Network. Here researchers and museum professionals meet on the subject of house museums.
Ane Hejlskov Larsen from Centre for Museology is part of the steering committee for the House Museum Network.
The House Museum Network is part of the Organisation of Danish Museums. The network's website states that: "A number of Danish museums have a past as housing. Preserving and displaying homes and interiors presents unique challenges – and opportunities. The Network for House Museums brings together institutions, researchers and other stakeholders for knowledge sharing."
The research centre focuses on the 19th century and strengthens the interdisciplinary exploration of the century through themes such as democratisation, identity, freedom, peoples, monarchy, nation-state, social mobilisation, technology, globalisation, uses of history, political ideologies etc.
The researchers affiliated with the centre will provide an understanding of contemporary social and cultural conflict zones through renewed insight into the art, literature, culture, religion and politics of the past.
The research centre was established in 2016. The centre facilitates two networks: the Danish Nineteenth-Century Research Network and the Nordic Nineteenth-Century Research Network. The centre also collaborates with international centres for 19th-century studies.
