{"id":42584,"date":"2022-10-11T12:34:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T16:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/collections\/conferences-and-symposia\/nouveaux-echanges-collections-musee-mccord\/"},"modified":"2022-10-11T12:46:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T16:46:35","slug":"new-dialogues-mccord-museum-collections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/en\/collections\/conferences-and-symposia\/new-dialogues-mccord-museum-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Collecting Knowledge: New Dialogues on McCord Museum Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Collecting Knowledge: New Dialogues on McCord Museum Collections<\/h4>\n

Collecting Knowledge: New Dialogues on McCord Museum Collections<\/strong>, a colloquium organized jointly by the research team of Montr\u00e9al, Dynamic Hubspace, and the McCord Museum, was held November 7-9, 2013.<\/p>\n

Attracting 150 participants, this unique event was designed to establish a dialogue about new research frontiers and stimulate discussions to enhance public knowledge of the Museum’s collections. The colloquium was also an opportunity to present recent research findings that have made innovative use of the McCord Museum’s historical collections, one of Canada’s largest sources of documents and artefacts for historical research.<\/p>\n

The meeting presented a wealth of information and generated a great deal of interest, proof of the importance of encouraging exchanges between researchers and curators.<\/p>\n

Presentations<\/strong>
\nOver thirty speakers took part in eight sessions, sharing their work with fellow researchers, Museum staff, and a large public audience interested in Montreal and its key role in the history of Canada. The event began with the session entitled Voices from the Vaults: Object Biography and McCord Museum Collections<\/strong>, chaired by Joanne Burgess, from the Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, and featuring presentations by Anne Mackay, Head, Conservation; Guislaine Lemay, Curator, Ethnology and Archaeology; and Cynthia Cooper, Curator, Costume and Textiles. The keynote address was given by Jacques Mathieu, Professor Emeritus, Universit\u00e9 Laval, an historian specializing in New France. His talk, entitled Journal intime de l’objet [Diary of an Object], examined the various approaches that may be used to document, study, analyze and present museum objects to different publics.<\/p>\n

Programme<\/a> Abstracts<\/a><\/p>\n

Visits<\/strong>
\nApproximately sixty participants also enjoyed behind-the-scenes visits of or workshops on the Museum’s collections, or took a guided tour of the exhibition Wearing Our Identity – The First Peoples’ Collection<\/a><\/em>, all presented by Museum curators.<\/p>\n