"The Role of Museums in the 21st Century" by Ramona Leiter

~ The British Museum ~

On September 26, 2020, Ramona Leiter gave an outstanding multimedia presentation at Owl & Ibis titled "The Role of Museums in the 21st Century." Mona expertly informed us and presented the various facets and difficulties attendant to museums, past, present, and future.

Here is Mona to discuss her presentation and provide links to key elements of her talk:

Hello everyone! Thank you very much to all that participated in the discussion last Saturday. I was thrilled to have a project to use my editing software, Movavi, on. Seeing things come together with the different transitions, effects etc... and how quickly I could edit it all into something that was how I envisioned it in my head was thrilling. This gives me the confidence to move on to more challenging things.

As I said in the presentation I am very passionate about museums and loved working on this presentation and talking about museums with other museum lovers. It was hard to research some of the darker side of museum history but I still love museums.

Attached you will find a word document and a pdf document that comprise my narration from the presentation. Below are the two videos I featured in the presentation for you to view if you missed them.

Vox video - The British Museum is full of stolen artifacts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoTxiRWrvp8&list=PLGfjPinKsOHVproBJ7Anqm28xHmr0OXtE&index=9

FBI makes "staggering" discovery of human bones while seizing trove of artifacts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7bl7je0FTM

And here are some other important links:

How I learned to stop hating and love museums - TED X Talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VWPHKABRQA&list=PLGfjPinKsOHVproBJ7Anqm28xHmr0OXtE&index=1

For looking at the tech way forward with museums try this video - How the Rijksmuseum is reinventing the museum another Ted X talk 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4V-6albaG0&list=PLGfjPinKsOHVproBJ7Anqm28xHmr0OXtE&index=5

Here is the video on the Stolen Goods tour at The British Museum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWVVTTsW5No&t=37s

Here is the full Getty blog entry with related resources on the New Face of Provenance Research in relation to Nazi-era looted art.

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/the-new-face-of-provenance-research/

And here is the Wikipedia article on the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO_Convention_on_the_Means_of_Prohibiting_and_Preventing_the_Illicit_Import,_Export_and_Transfer_of_Ownership_of_Cultural_Property

I again thank everyone for the kind words and participation. 

Mona

Attachments

Museums Purpose

21st Century Challenge Museums