[Forum] Konferenzankündigung "Making it Real. Historical Authenticity in Museums and Collections in the UK, Germany, and Europe, December 3‐5, 2019, Whipple Museum of the History of Science"

[Ulf Hashagen]

Making it Real. Historical Authenticity in Museums and Collections in 
the UK, Germany, and Europe
December 3‐5, 2019
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Free School Lane
Cambridge CB2 3RH
https://www.museums.cam.ac.uk/museums/whipple‐museum‐history‐science

Organized by
Liba Taub (Whipple Museum of the History of Science)
Ulf Hashagen (Deutsches Museum, Munich)
Achim Saupe (Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam)
Tuesday, December 3, 6.30 pm

Programme
Wednesday, December 4
9.45 Introduction
Liba Taub, Achim Saupe, Ulf Hashagen
Section 1: Authentication and authorisation. Objects, places and 
institutions in political‐cultural
contexts
10:10
Sally Foster (Stirling University)
What replicas can tell us about authenticity, if we let them speak
10.50
Barbara Wood (University of Hertfordshire)
How Shifting Power and Authority in Heritage Reinvent 'Authenticity' in 
Museums
11.30
Stefanie Jovanovic‐Kruspel (Natural History Museum Vienna)
The Case of the Novara‐Spear: Spolia in 19th Century Museums. Between 
Authenticity and
Storytelling
12.10 Lunch break
13.30‐14:30 Museum Tour 1: Museum of Classical Archaeology, Suzanne Turner
Section 2: Virtual authenticity ‐ a contradiction?
15.20
Dennis Niewerth (German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven)
Authenticity as Virtuality: Producing 'The Real' in Digital Cultural 
Heritage
16.00
Dominik Kimmel (Römisch‐Germanisches Zentralmuseum – Leibniz Research 
Institute for
Archaeology, Mainz)
Evidence in Virtual Worlds
16.40
Willi Xylander (Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde, Görlitz)
“Para‐Authenticity” ‐ An approach to presenting “the real life” in a 
virtual reality animation
on soil animals


Thursday, December 5
Section 3: The real and authentic between replicas, copies, fakes and 
forgeries
9.40
Artemis Yagou (Deutsches Museum, Munich)
Making it Real for Whom? Issues of Authenticity in Pocket Watches for 
the Ottoman Market
(18th‐19th century)
10.20
Silke Berdux (Deutsches Museum, Munich)
To speak or not to speak? The Kempelen speaking apparatus in the 
Deutsches Museum in
Munich, its replica, and issues of authenticity
11.00 Museum Tour 2 — Whipple Museum, Joshua Nall
12.00 Lunch
Section 4: Authorising and representing the real
13.00
Anna‐Magdalena Heide (German Mining Museum, Bochum)
Commissioned Authenticity. The Example "Portraits of Famous Miners"
13.40
Elaine Charwat (UCL & Oxford University Museum of Natural History)
"Not the real thing?" Natural History Models and Casts as Uncomfortable 
Objects
14.30
Charlotte Colding Smith (German Maritime Museum Bremerhaven)
Authentication and Presentation of Scrimshaw and Whale Ivories in a 
Modern Museum
Context
15.10
Final Discussion
15.30 End

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PD Dr. Ulf Hashagen
Leitung / Head
Forschungsinstitut für Technik- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte / The Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology
Deutsches Museum
Museumsinsel 1
80538 München / Munich
Germany
Tel. +49/(0)89/2179-453
Fax  +49/(0)89/2179-239
u.hashagen at deutsches-museum.de
http://www.deutsches-museum.de/forschung/wissenschaftl-mitarbeiter/pd-dr-ulf-hashagen/