Download programmeThe 2009 MGHG conference was held at the National Gallery in London on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th September 2009, co-organised the International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies at Newcastle University.
The conference brought together those who study the interconnections between museums and galleries, collecting and biography. Drawing together analyses of representation, material culture and personality, papers cast new light on the study of lives, objects and display.
Keynote speakers were Arthur MacGregor and Nicholas Penny.
The MGHG successfully hosted a two day international symposium at Newcastle University in September 2006 on the theme negotiating museum and gallery history. This gave a chance to review the nature, roles and problems of museum and gallery history.
The MGHG successfully hosted a one-day inaugural conference at the National Gallery, London in July 2003.
A two-day symposium held at the Manchester Museum, 6th-8th September 2007.
For more information please visit www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/naturebehindglass/.
At the 'Nature behind Glass' symposium, the Museums and Galleries History Group board awarded a prize for the poster that attractively displayed the most historiographically or theoretically innovative content. The 17 posters displayed were of an exceptionally high quality, but after deliberation the programme panel awarded the £50 prize to Merle Patchett, University of Glasgow, and Kate Foster, artist, for their poster, 'Lively geographies of dead animals'. The panel admired their multifaceted understandings of taxidermy and carefully orchestrated multidisciplinary research.
This year's AGM took place on Friday, 12 September 2008, at the National Gallery (Sainsbury Wing Conference Room 2). The AGM started at 2.30 and was followed by a talk on the Raphael digitisation project, a visit to the National Gallery Archive and a wine reception.
