SEMINAR: Modernism and the Museum Space in Germany. London, 5 July 2017

SEMINAR: Modernism and the Museum Space in Germany

Wednesday 5 July 2017, 6pm. London, School of Arts, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square, Cinema.
This symposium will explore the ways in which the advanced architecture of the early twentieth century in Germany confronted the space of the museum, and was itself curated and presented for display.
Max Sternberg (Cambridge University), Choreographies of the medieval: The Schnütgen Museum in Cologne 1910-1932
Jeremy Aynsley (University of Brighton), Curating Bauhaus Houses, 1923-2019
Respondent: Robin Schuldenfrei (Courtauld Institute of Art)
The symposium is free and open to all. You can book here.

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