MUSEUMS INSTITUTIONS and WELLBEING

Friday, 11 July 2025: 11:00-12:45
Location: FSE022 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC37 Sociology of Arts (host committee)

Language: English

The purpose of this session is to interweave the sociological analysis of institutions, such as Museums, with the emerging issues of contemporary society, such as digitalization and innovation processes but also the social turn of institutions becoming places for wellbeing and social cohesion, thus creating new discourses and stimulating new narratives in contemporary society.
Session Organizer:
Ilaria RICCIONI, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Oral Presentations
House of Memories Cymru: Enhancing Dementia Care and Wellbeing through Museum-Led Training in Wales
Rafaela NEIVA GANGA, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom; Steve Nolan NOLAN, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom; Pouria MOTALEBI, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom; Marcus HANSEN, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
Museum Speaks: Discourses of Digitalization and Transformation of Museum Practices
Dušan RISTIĆ, University of Graz, Austria
Towards Best Practices for the Construction of the "Useful Museum"
Giorgia CIOLLI, Italy
Museums and the Challenge of Contemporaneity: New Narratives between Sensitivity and Rhetoric
Marxiano MELOTTI, Niccolò Cusano University, Rome, Italy
Private Museums: Privatization of Art History?
Johannes AENGENHEYSTER, Netherlands; Olav VELTHUIS, Netherlands; Alex VAN VENROOIJ, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Recovering the Remnants – Acquiring the Remnants. Rethinking the Function of Museum Storage.
Barbara LEWICKA, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
See more of: RC37 Sociology of Arts
See more of: Research Committees
<< Previous Session | Next Session >>