Programs, Past Meetings
V, Munich, 2000: Artefacts and the Environment
MONDAY, 14 August, Deutsches Museum, Verkehrszentrum
16:30 Departure for the Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum
17.00 Tour the exhibition “Clean Energy,” guided by Walter Hauser (Deutsches Museum)
Evening Get together at the Biergarten “Augustinerkeller”
TUESDAY, 15 August, Deutsches Museum, Filmsaal
9:00-9:15
Greetings by Wolf Peter Fehlhammer (Director, DM)
Helmuth Trischler (DM): Introduction to the conference.
9:15-11:00
Peter Morris (Science Museum), “National styles in chemical analysis: Coulson, Lovelock and the detection of DDT”
Thomas Zeller (DM): “The Autobahn as an artefact: the social and physical construction of highways in Germany 1930-1970”
11;00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:45
Tim Boon (Science Museum), “Noise and smoke: Displaying the costs of the Machine Age at the Science Museum in the mid-1930s”
Jeffrey Stine (Smithsonian, NMAH), “Thoughts on technology and the environment”
12:45-1400 Lunch
14.00-15.30
Hal Wallace (Smithsonian, NMAH) “ Green power: Collecting a synthetic technology”
Jane Insley (Science Museum), “Water, water, everywhere?”
15.30-16.45 Sabine Gerber (DM), Presentation of the new gallery on pharmacy
16:45-1715 Break
17.15.-18.00
Mark Rose (Florida Atlantic University), “comment"
Discussion
18.30 Dinner at the “Hofbräuhaus”
WEDNESDAY, 16 August, Deutsches Museum, Filmsaal
9.00 - 10.00
Robert Friedel (U Maryland), “Looking for ‘green’ in exhibitions at the Smithsonian and the Deutsches Museum”
10.00-11.30 Panel discussion, Chair: Derek Robinson (Science Museum),“Object free zones, Exhibitions without artefacts?“
Participants: Walter Hauser (DM), Robert Bud (Science Museum), Paul Ceruzzi (Smithsonian, NASM), David Rhees (The Baaken)
11:30-11:50 Break
11:50-12:10 Barney Finn (Smithsonian, NMAH), “Artefacts on the web”
12:10-13.00 Wrap-up discussion
13:00 Lunch and end of conference