Museums of the World

Since 2014, the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation has organised the international seminar series Museums of the World – on the state of the museums today, their historical background as well as their future role, purpose and challenges. The series of lectures and seminars examined the fundamental idea of the museum and its historical developments which is an ongoing effort by the Ax:son Johnson Foundation to further the dissemination of scholarly knowledge.

The project has been financed with SEK 7,7 million

SEMINARS
November 2014 Public and Private Museums, held at Engelsberg Ironworks

November 2014 Lecture with Andrei Sakharov Museum Director Sergei Lukashevsky: Modern Russia and the Heritage of Andrei Sakharov at Stockholm City Museum

March 2015 Museums of the World – Towards a New Understanding of a Historical Institution, organised jointly with Moderna Museet in Stockholm and at Engelsberg Ironworks

September 2015 The Importance of the Mediterranean Institutes for the Swedish Humanities at Engelsberg Ironworks

November 2015 Cultural Heritage at Risk – The Role of Museums in War and Conflict, at the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm

October 2016 Museums – Can the Government Cope with its Mission?, organised in Stockholm

January 2017 Collecting Enlightenment – Carl Gustaf Tessin and the Making of National Collections, organised at INHA together with the Musée du Louvre in Paris

BOOKS
Museums of the World. Towards a new understanding of a historical institution.
Edited by Kurt Almqvist and Louise Belfrage.
Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation

Cultural Heritage at Risk.
Edited by Kurt Almqvist and Louise Belfrage.
Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation

Medelhavsinstitutens betydelse för svensk humaniora.
Redaktörer: Kurt Almqvist och Louise Belfrage.
Axel och Margaret Ax:son Johnson stiftelse

Collecting Enlightenment.
Edited by Kurt Almqvist and Louise Belfrage.
Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation