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SUMMARY:Gespräch: What is sacred? Care practices for museum collections.
DESCRIPTION:Gespräch with Ayesha Fuentes\, Elena Holzhausen and Claudia Au
 gustat | In englischer SpracheTeil der Reihe:&nbsp\;Perspektiven im Dialog
 
 Museums today are often seen as secular spaces\, some actively trying t
 o distance themselves from their religious etymological origins—the Gree
 k word ‘mouseion’\, meaning a temple of the Muses. Nonetheless\, museu
 ms such as the Weltmuseum Wien continue to house ancestors and the dead\, 
 and contain powerful objects: Yurupari flutes from the Colombia-Brazil bor
 der are deliberately unseen in the exhibition\, being spiritual entities t
 hat cannot be viewed by uninitiated individuals\; in a related gesture\, t
 he altar ensemble of a spirit medium from Northeast Thailand was gifted to
  the museum as a space capable of containing the altar’s power.
 This r
 oundtable centers on the apparent contradiction that arises between the se
 cular museum as a home to such spiritual artefacts\, questioning whether t
 he museum really is a secular space and how this status impacts the meanin
 g\, value\, and care of the artefacts in collections.
 The roundtable bri
 ngs together the following panelists:
 Ayesha Fuentes&nbsp\;is an objects
  conservator and researcher specializing in the care and study of material
  religion. She has a PhD from SOAS University of London (2021) and is a gr
 aduate of the UCLA/Getty MA in Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnogra
 phic Materials in 2014. She recently completed a postdoc on access and con
 servation ethics for material heritage collections at the Museum of Archae
 ology and Anthropology\, University of Cambridge\, works frequently in col
 lections across the Himalayas\, and is currently Conservation Research Ass
 ociate at Cambridge University Library. For more about her work\, see&nbsp
 \;www.ayeshafuentes.com.
 Elena Holzhausen&nbsp\;&nbsp\;is the diocesan c
 hief conservator and head of the department for art and monument preservat
 ion. She studied art history\, German studies\, and Asian art at the unive
 rsities of Würzburg\, Heidelberg\, and Vienna.&nbsp\;Erzdiözese Wien\, R
 eferat für Kunst und Denkmalpflege&nbsp\;&nbsp\;
 Claudia Augustat&nbsp\
 ;holds a PhD in cultural anthropology and has been the head of the South A
 merica Collection at the Weltmuseum Wien since 2004. From 2015 to 2017\, s
 he served as the curatorial director of the reinstallation of the permanen
 t exhibition at the Weltmuseum Wien. From 2019 to 2023\, she was the proje
 ct leader of the EU co-funded project Taking Care: Ethnographic and World 
 Cultures Museums as Spaces of Care. Her research focuses on material cultu
 re and cultural memory\, museums and colonialism\, collaborative curatorsh
 ip\, and the decolonization of museum practice.
 The roundtable will be m
 oderated by Alisa Santikarn and Renée Riedler.&nbsp\;
 An event organise
 d in collaboration with GloCo Heritage Studies Vienna.
 Weitere Informati
 onen findet ihr unter folgendem Link:What is sacred? Care practices for mu
 seum collections. - Führungen &amp\; Programm - Weltmuseum Wien
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