CFP: Who Cares? Collecting, Preserving, and Curating (Krems, 1-3 Jul 26)
DAC (Department for Art and Cultural Studies) Summer School 2026: “Who Cares? Collecting, preserving, and curating in museums, archives, and organizations” at the University for Continuing Education Krems, July 1-3, 2026. Chairs:– Department for…
CFP: Collecting to Shape and Reflect the Nation (London, 22-23 Oct 26)
“Collecting to Shape and Reflect the Nation: Changing Museum Strategies from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century”. The Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) and the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (GNM) are collaborating to organize a…
CFP: Sammeln, erforschen (AG Sammlungen im Arbeitskreis zur Erforschung der „Moderne im Rheinland“ e.V. – Düsseldorf, 11-13 Nov 26)
Sammeln erforschen – internationale, nationale und regionale Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektivierung. Das Sammeln gehört zu den grundlegenden kulturellen Praktiken. In seiner historischen und begrifflichen Nähe zum Archiv bildet es bis heute einen wesentlichen Bestandteil…
CFP: Cultura en movimiento: élites, coleccionismo y circulación artística (Madrid, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales del CSIC – 20-21 May 2026)
Los miembros de las cortes europeas de la Edad Moderna se reconocían en una cultura compartida, derivada de un modo de estar y conversar heredado y propio de un espacio distinguido. Las obras…
CONF: Annual Lecture – Judy Rudoe ‘The British Museum and collecting post 1850 applied arts’ (17 Sep 2025, 5:30 PM BST)
In the late 1970s, the decision was made to extend the European applied arts collections into the 20th century. This was in part to bring the European collections in line with other departments…
CONF: History of Map Collecting: Vienna, Central Europe and Beyond (Vienna, 12 Jun 25)
International Conference “History of Map Collecting. Vienna, Central Europe and Beyond”.Concept and Organisation: Silvia Tammaro & Eva Chodějovská; Location: Seminar Room Nr. 1, University of Vienna, Department of Art History (Uni Campus, Courtyard 9),…
ANN: TIAMSA Live Book Discussion: Frances Fowle and Mary Kate Cleary, The Art Market and the Museum: Institutional Collecting, Display and Patronage since Mid-Nineteenth Century (22 May 2025, 18:00 CET)
TIAMSA is pleased to announce its fifteenth book discussion: The Art Market and the Museum: Institutional Collecting, Display and Patronage since the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025). Authors Frances Fowle (University of Edinburgh)…
ANN: TIAMSA Live Book Discussion: Frances Fowle and Mary Kate Cleary, The Art Market and the Museum: Institutional Collecting, Display and Patronage since Mid-Nineteenth Century (22 May 2025, 18:00 CET)
TIAMSA is pleased to announce its fifteenth book discussion: The Art Market and the Museum: Institutional Collecting, Display and Patronage since the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025). Authors Frances Fowle (University of Edinburgh)…
ANN: Summer School “AI will sort it … out? Practices of collecting, archiving and curating in the age of digital transformation” (Universität für Weiterbildung Krems, 2-4 July 2025)
Collecting plays a prominent role as a practice of selecting, recording and structuring material and immaterial objects not only in the realm of museums and archives, but also in organizations. In the context…