Gendered Interpretations at the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Vasa Museum

该项目建立在AHRC资助的一个为期两年的研究网络项目“现代早期欧洲的性别、权力和物质”的成功基础上，该项目提高了现代博物馆学环境中对性别的认识。该网络在4个大学节点(普利茅斯、隆德、莱顿和西澳大利亚)与维多利亚与阿尔卑斯博物馆的馆长和研究部门、瑞典斯卡胡特城堡、伦敦博物馆和文化遗产莱顿的实践专业人员之间进行了宝贵的对话，以前曾从隆德大学和瑞典研究理事会获得大量资金。后续资金将进一步加强与维多利亚与阿尔伯特博物馆的现有伙伴关系，并使我们能够与一个重要的新国际合作伙伴--斯德哥尔摩瓦萨博物馆合作，该博物馆正在重新组织他们在收藏和博物馆学实践中对性别的看法。两家博物馆和隆德大学都承诺为拟议的项目提供匹配资金，并将其视为在知识交流方面产生重大而广泛的影响。作为过去两年与我们的非高等学校合作伙伴合作的研讨会的结果，我们开发了一种通过性别、权力和物质性的视角来理解物品、展览和过去的解释性方法，揭示了性别权力集群如何影响物品的形式和功能的决策。该网络的一个强大成果是提高了人们对性别(包括女性和男性、女性和男性、性别和身份)作为博物馆环境中一个重要的解释性类别的认识，以及这在产生各种叙事方面的作用，这些叙事通过策展实践以及最广泛意义上的教育和公共方案传播，作为一种刺激行为变化的方式，具有更广泛的社会影响。因此，我们正在寻求与两个国际灯塔机构合作，以便将性别问题更好地纳入对过去和现在的叙述。该项目团队(Daybell(PI)、Norhem(International CI)、Susan BroomHall、Nadine Akkerman和Jacqueline Van Gent；在Vasa研究协调人Mirja Arnshav和研究主管Fred Hocker；在V&A，研究主管Joanna Norman、Elaine Tierney研究员和助理馆长Dawn Hoskins和Zorian Clayton)将与合作伙伴(包括由瑞典性别历史学家/研究员Pia Laskar博士领导的瑞典遗产专业人员网络)合作，以与博物馆专业人员共同制定和解释V&A和Vasa的收藏品和永久展览。项目活动将有几个方面：1)通过V&A和Vasa的常设展览和收藏，通过确定和研究每个博物馆的10-20件物品，开发性别解释途径；2)通过一系列交付成果，包括公开演讲、对话活动、教育资料包、自我指导的口译材料、播客和短片，共同制作公共参与传播活动和材料。3)在伦敦和斯德哥尔摩举办了两次知识交流活动，项目团队和V&A和VASA的博物馆实践专业人员(馆长、编目员、文物保护人员、教育和外联以及公共节目编制)以及其他非高等教育机构合作举办了两次知识交流活动。这些活动有两个目的：在每个机构中进一步共同制作按性别划分的途径和解释材料；以及促进国际机构之间就按性别划分的解释途径的概念影响进行知识交流。4)与V&A、Vasa和瑞典博物馆网络合作，制作最佳做法范本，在瑞典博物馆之间传播，并促进国际知识交流。

This project builds upon the success of a 2-year AHRC-funded research network project, 'Gender, Power and Materiality in Early Modern Europe', which raised awareness of gender in modern museological environments. The network generated a valuable dialogue between 4 university nodes (Plymouth, Lund, Leiden and Western Australia) and curators and research department at the V&A, and practice professionals at Skarhult Castle, Sweden, Museum of London, and Cultural Heritage Leiden, and previously has secured significant funding from the University of Lund and the Swedish Research Council. The follow-on funding would further enhance the existing partnership with the V&A, and allow us to work with a major new international partner, the Vasa Museum, Stockholm, which is reorganising the ways in which they think of gender in relation to their collections and museology practices. Both of the museums as well as Lund University have promised to provide match-funding for the proposed project, and see it as delivering significant wider impact in terms of knowledge exchange.As a result of workshops over the past two years in collaboration with our non-HEI partners we developed an interpretative methodology for understanding objects, exhibitions and the past through the lens of gender, power and materiality that revealed the ways in which gendered power clusters influenced decision-making in the form and function of objects. A powerful outcome of the network has been a raising of the awareness of gender (which encompasses women and men, femininities and masculinities, sexualities and identities) as an important interpretive category within the museum environment, and the role this can play in generating diverse narratives that have wider societal impact disseminated through curatorial practice, and educational and public programming in its broadest sense, as a way of stimulating changes in behaviour. We are therefore seeking to work with two international beacon institutions in order to integrate gender better into narratives of the past and present. The project the team (Daybell (PI), Norrhem (International CI), Susan Broomhall, Nadine Akkerman and Jacqueline Van Gent; at the Vasa Mirja Arnshav, Research Co-ordinator and Fred Hocker, Head of Research, and at the V&A, Joanna Norman, Head of Research, Elaine Tierney, Research Fellow, and Assistant Curators Dawn Hoskins and Zorian Clayton) would work with collaborating partners (including a network of Swedish heritage professionals led by Dr Pia Laskar, a Swedish gender historian/researcher) in order to coproduce with museum professionals gendered pathways and interpretation of the collections and permanent exhibitions at the V&A and Vasa. The project activities will have several strands: 1) To develop gendered interpretative pathways through the permanent exhibitions and collections at the V&A and Vasa by identifying and researching 10-20 objects in each museum.2) Co-production of public engagement dissemination activities and materials through a range of deliverables, including public talks, dialogue events, education packages, self-guided interpretative materials, podcasts and short film. A key aim of these activities is to reach out to new audiences defined by the partner institutions.3) Two Knowledge Exchange events in London and Stockholm with the project team and museum practice professionals (curators, cataloguers, conservators, education and outreach and public programming) at the V&A and Vasa, and other non-HEI collaborating institutions. These events have two aims: to coproduce further the gendered pathways and interpretive materials in each institution; and to facilitate knowledge exchange of the conceptual implications of gendered interpretive pathways between international institutions.4) Working with V&A, Vasa and a network of Swedish museums to produce of model of best practice to disseminate among Swedish museums and generate interntational knowledge exchange.