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This is a call for everyone who knows about a really great museum: architecturally wonderful, politically important, magnificent collections, key urban sites. If you know of a museum, once seen, but not enough to write about it, contact the architects and ask them to describe it, the process, the content. If you have a museum that lives on in your mind from the past, or your travels, tell us about it and why it is significant. We would also like a discussion of why archives, galleries and museums are important -- or are they? Will the vast collections on the web make the buildings obsolete soon? Is the museum still the cabinet of curiosities, or is it the cultural equivalent of the seed bank? This isn’t about art galleries and contemporary art, although I can think of many contemporary artists, such as Christian Boltanski whose work is specifically drawn from archival material. Which is his most-used museum or archive? Eduardo Paolozzi raided the British Ethnography Museum in the early 1980s, taking things from the collection and adding his own work — a critique of the objectification of cultures. And for different reasons, Picasso haunted the Trocadero Museum of Ethnography. How about the Iceland Heritage Museum in Gimli, Manitoba, or the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, or a serious look at Canada’s War Museum and the structural strictures of tall canted concrete walls? Or the landscape in which the War Museum sits? Or the delicate Costume Museum just east of Winnipeg, or lighthouse museums, or the conjunction of slavery and sugar at the Liverpool Tate? Or the lovely, tiny, vertical textile museum in Toronto. Or the Tyrell Museum at Drumheller, not that great but it doesn’t get in the way of an amazing collection. Is this part of it? You all have many ties to many countries, provinces, cities and people. Present us with museums that will provoke, excite and drive us to think about the past, the present and how these things are housed. call for articles: on site issue 20 (fall/winter 2008) archives and museums
send ideas by July 1, 2008 to editor @ onsitereview.ca finished articles are due August 15 2008
800-1000 words maximum, you provide the images, and don’t take any images off the web. Make sure have copyright clearance for any images not produced by yourself.
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