Presentation at the 40th conference of the International Association of Transport and Communications Museums

1. Defending our true selves: being museums
Maria Vlachou
IATM Conference, Porto, 30 June 2015
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2. Daesung Lee, Futuristic Archeaology series
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3. French President François Hollande
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dead
untouchable
unattainable
locked up
frozen
centralised
controlled

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Holocaust Museum,
Buenos Aires

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Holocaust Museum,
Buenos Aires
“A museum, no art”

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Holocaust Museum,
Buenos Aires
“She and millions
of other people did
nothing to be in a
museum.”

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much more than a museum

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“A good museum attracts, entertains, arouses
curiosity, leads to questioning and thus, promotes
learning. (...) The Museum can help people only if
they use it; they will use it only if they know about
it and only if attention is given to the
interpretation of its possessions in terms they, the
people, will understand.” (John Cotton Dana,

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“Curators may be
prodigies of learning and
yet unfit for their posts if
they don´t know
anything about
pedagogy, if they are not
equipped to teach
people who know
nothing.”
Edward Forbes, 1854

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Museum Hack is a highly interactive, subversive, fun,
non-traditional museum tour.

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Michelle Obama, Whitney Museum inauguration, New York

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“The good thing
about museums
is that you don’t
have to sit an
exam to get in or
to come out.”
Gail Dexter Lord

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KUMU, Tallinn

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Convent of Christ, Tomar

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Municipal Museum of Aljustrel

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Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon

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Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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Posters by artist
Peter Drew in the
streets of Adelaide
Shared on Facebook by
Migration Mueum, Adelaide

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Thelma Golden
Harlem Studio Museum
New York

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Left: Museum in the Netherlands
Right: Fine Arts Museum, Budapest

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Maritime Museum, Barcelona

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Ethnography Museum
Budapest

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Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon

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Exhibition postcard
Municipality of Lisbon

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The British Museum, London

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Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York

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Thank you!
acessocultura.org
mariavlachou.pt@gmail.com
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