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MUSEUMS AND THE MARKETMGHG Annual ConferenceLeeds City MuseumSeptember 10th and 11th 2010In the history of every museum there has been a significant engagement with the wider market structures and yet these engagements rarely feature in the interpretation of the history of the objects as we encounter them in the modern museum.  The museum has also, since its inception, been involved in the cultural and the economic structures of society.  Indeed, museums are now seen as crucial signifiers and influential catalysts in what we now call the ‘cultural economy’.  It is therefore appropriate, given the current interest in the commercial aspects of the history of collections and the interest in the museum itself as part of the ‘market’, to look anew at the role played by the market in the history of the museum.  This innovative conference, one of the first of its kind, focuses on the intersections, the formal and informal spaces where the market and the museum meet and overlap.  The papers reflect a wide range of interests and perspectives and bring together leading academics and museum professionals in order to further discussion and debate around this increasingly significant subject.  Located at the new Leeds City Museum, the conference will be of interest to academics, museum professionals, and all those who are interested in the history of the museum and its role in society.Conference ProgrammeFriday 10th September 20109.15 - Conference Registration10.00 - Welcome10.10 - Welcome to Leeds: John Roles, Director, Leeds City Museums10.30 - Conference Keynote: Dr Helen Rees Leahy, Director of the Centre for Museology, University of Manchester11.10 – Coffee11.40 – Conference Session 1: Commerce &#38; ConsumptionSteven Miles (University of Brighton) Contrived Communality: the gallery and museum as a themed space for post-industrial consumptionChristine Guth (Royal College of Art) Blockbusters and Museum Merchandise: Marketing Hokusai's "Great Wave"Gareth Williams (Royal College of Art) On Design Art13.00 – Lunch Break14.00 – Conference Session 2: The Formation of TasteJulia Courtney (The Open University) "The stuffed animals will have to go": Alderman Jacob, William Chalkley and Dr CottrillStephanie Schumann (The Drawing Centre, New York) (title tbc)Louise Tythacott (University of Manchester) The Power of Taste: the dispersal of the Berkeley Smith collection of Chinese ceramics at Cheltenham Art Gallery &#38; Museum (1921-1960)15.20 – Coffee15.50 – Conference Keynote: Professor Jos Hackforth-Jones, Director of Sotheby's Institute of Art, London16.30 – Optional Guided Tour of the Leeds Discovery CentreSaturday 11th September 20109.30 – Parallel Conference Sessions 3 &#38; 4Conference Session 3: PhilanthropyAndrea Meyer (Institut für Kunstwissenschaft und Historische Urbanistik, Berlin) Museum directors as money makers: a reinvestigation of the history of the National Gallery in BerlinJozef Glassée (The Catholic University of Leuven) Buying Art for Ghent: The Ghent Museum Friends and the European Art Market (1897-c.1930)Martin Weiss (University of Leiden) "With a Little Tacit Encouragement‟: Teylers Museum's Paleontological CollectionConference Session 4: Circulating CommoditiesSavithri Preetha Nair (Independent Scholar) The Rise of the Natural History Dealer in Colonial IndiaSam Alberti &#38; Christopher Plumb (University of Manchester) The Beastly Marketplace: Animal Commodities in Shops, Museums, and Other Sites of DisplayLina Tahan (Leeds Metropolitan University) The role of the Lebanese agents and dealers in the development of the Louvre Museum near Eastern Collections10.50 – Coffee11.20 - Parallel Conference Sessions 5 &#38; 6Conference Session 5: Regeneration and the Cultural EconomySusannah Eckersley (University of Newcastle) Regeneration by Museum? Case studies from GermanyPatrick Haughey (Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston) Hamilton‟s Classroom: the museum of American Finance and the education of a market citizenMariam Al-Mulla (University of Leeds) Heritage in Qatar: an example of culturally-led economic regenerationConference Session 6: Museums and IdentitiesNatasha Degen (University of Cambridge) A National Type of Imagination: Nation branding and the museumUta Protz (Kunsthalle, Bremen) Modern French Painting and the Musee du Louvre: the impact of the studio sale of Gustave Courbet 1881Annalea Tunesi (University of Leeds) An enigmatic façade: Palazzo Mozzi-Bardini in Florence12.50 – Lunch Break and MGHG Annual General Meeting14.00 – Conference Session 7: Leeds in PerspectiveMark Steadman (University of Leeds) Mail Order Museums: Recovering the market forces behind Nineteenth-Century Natural History collecting practicesRebecca Wade (University of Leeds) "A Love of Truth even in Trifles‟: the exhibition of art and manufactures in mid-nineteenth century LeedsGeoffrey Forster (The Leeds Library) William Bullock in Leeds15.20 – Coffee15.50 – Conference Session 8: Museums and the Art MarketEsmée Quodbach (The Frick Collection, New York) "Trying to catch a rising star‟: Vermeer on the Art Market 1870-1920Anne Helmreich (Case Western Reserve University, Ohio) Strategies of Display: the museum and the commercial art gallery in nineteenth-century Britain16.50 – Closing Remarks: Alan Crookham, Chair, MGHGFull programme and booking form now available on the website: www.mghg.org/events/(fonte: H-MUSEUM)