Brown Bag presentation by Dario Gamboni: Artists’ and Collectors’ Museums: Issues of Sustainability, Heritage, and Adaptation

• Time: Friday the 26th of September from 12-13.45
• Place: Aarhus University, Kasernen, Langelandsgade 139 (building 1580, room 214)

Presentation and roundtable discussion by prof. em. Dario Gamboni

Collections of artworks tend to be made and unmade, after the will of their owners or as a result of economic pressure, transformations in taste, and inheritance. The creation of artists’ and collectors’ museums aims at resisting such forces with the help of various devices, but success is never assured. The history of these institutions is a revealing witness to the changing conditions and expectations faced by museums at large. The focus of this seminar will be on the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, inaugurated in 1903 and expanded by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in 2005-12.

• Bring your own lunch. Coffee/tea/cake will be provided.