Nationalmuseet | Troublesome Pictures: Representing the Colonial Past / Part I @natmusdk | Uploaded June 2016 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
Images depicting former colonies have shaped and continue to inform interpretations of the past.
Libraries, museums, archives all collect images, but also communicate them in various ways, taking part in the constant construction of colonial visual history. This seminar - arranged by LFF (Landsforeningen til bevaring af Foto og Film: fotoogfilm.org/) - discusses the creation, circulation, registration and interpretation of images.
The keynote concerns Rijksmuseum’s current project on changing offensive metadata as part of the museum’s dealings with colonial past.
Three talks investigate the representation of the colonies in exhibitions by The National Museum, M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark and The Royal Library from various perspectives.
A series of research papers present critiques of historical and contemporary photography, film and TV-serials.
Program
10.30 – 12.15
Colonial History in the Rijksmuseum
Maria Holtrop, Junior Curator, History Department of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
How Images Speak: National Museum Artefact DVI6030, and Its Affects
Dr Temi Odumosu, Living Archives Research Project, Malmö University
Human Cargo. The Representation of Slave Trade at the Maritime Museum of Denmark
Ulla Tofte, Director, CEO, M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark, Elsinore
Follow the next part of the program starting at 13:00 (CET) youtu.be/ntIkwIaEQiY
(Cover image from the National Museum of Denmark: http://samlinger.natmus.dk/DNT/25219)
Images depicting former colonies have shaped and continue to inform interpretations of the past.
Libraries, museums, archives all collect images, but also communicate them in various ways, taking part in the constant construction of colonial visual history. This seminar - arranged by LFF (Landsforeningen til bevaring af Foto og Film: fotoogfilm.org/) - discusses the creation, circulation, registration and interpretation of images.
The keynote concerns Rijksmuseum’s current project on changing offensive metadata as part of the museum’s dealings with colonial past.
Three talks investigate the representation of the colonies in exhibitions by The National Museum, M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark and The Royal Library from various perspectives.
A series of research papers present critiques of historical and contemporary photography, film and TV-serials.
Program
10.30 – 12.15
Colonial History in the Rijksmuseum
Maria Holtrop, Junior Curator, History Department of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
How Images Speak: National Museum Artefact DVI6030, and Its Affects
Dr Temi Odumosu, Living Archives Research Project, Malmö University
Human Cargo. The Representation of Slave Trade at the Maritime Museum of Denmark
Ulla Tofte, Director, CEO, M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark, Elsinore
Follow the next part of the program starting at 13:00 (CET) youtu.be/ntIkwIaEQiY
(Cover image from the National Museum of Denmark: http://samlinger.natmus.dk/DNT/25219)
