Richard Schöne Society
The Richard Schöne Society for Museum History e. V. is an international scientific society that aims to promote scientific and cultural work on the basis of research into museum history and to support its public dissemination in order to enable the comparison of historical, social and cultural experiences. The society is politically and religiously neutral. (§ 2 of the statutes)
The company was founded on May 3, 1994 and is based in Berlin . It organizes scientific conferences and lectures on German and international museum history and also addresses a broader audience with public events and projects on museum history and museum policy issues. There are collaborations with researchers at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, the Humboldt University of Berlin , the Free University of Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin as well as institutions such as the Berlin City Museum Foundation , the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the German Historical Museum .
The chairman of the society is the art historian Dorothee Wimmer ; her predecessor was the art historian Tanja Baensch . The second chairman is the architecture critic and museum historian Nikolaus Bernau .
Surname
The association is named after the archaeologist and classical philologist Richard Schöne (1840-1922), who has been a specialist in the museum administration in the Prussian Ministry of Culture since 1872 and then since 1880 as the first general director of today's Berlin State Museums with a bourgeois background, liberal political orientation and academic Education whose growth and design has decisively shaped.
Publications
- Museum productions. On the history of the institution of the art museum. The Berlin Museum Landscape 1830-1990 Ed. Alexis Joachimides a. a. on behalf of the Richard-Schöne-Gesellschaft für Museumgeschichte eV Dresden / Basel 1995.
- "Of German Art". National Gallery and National Identity 1876 to 1998 Ed. Claudia Rückert and Sven Kuhrau on behalf of the Richard-Schöne-Gesellschaft für Museumgeschichte eV Leipzig 1998.
- Renaissance of cultural history? The rediscovery of the Märkisches Museum in Berlin from a European perspective Ed. Alexis Joachimides and Sven Kuhrau on behalf of the Richard-Schöne-Gesellschaft für Museumgeschichte e. V. and the Berlin City Museum Foundation. Dresden 2001.
- Museum history: Annotated source texts 1750–1950 Hg. Kristina Kratz-Kessemeier, Andrea Meyer and Bénédicte Savoy. Cooperation between the Department of Art History at the Technical University of Berlin and the Richard Schöne Society for Museum History eV Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-496-01425-6
- Ludwig Justi - Art and the Public. Contributions from the symposium on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Ludwig Justi (1876-1957). October 19 and 20, 2007 Ed. Kristina Kratz-Kessemeier and Tanja Moormann-Schulz for the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Richard-Schöne-Gesellschaft für Museumgeschichte eV Berlin 2011 (Yearbook of the Berlin Museums, Supplement, NF vol. 52).
- Taste story (s). Public and private art collecting in Germany 1871-1933 Ed. Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen and Sven Kuhrau, cooperation between the Kunsthistorisches Institut Kiel, the AG Artists in the 20th Century in the Ulmer Verein, the Richard-Schöne-Gesellschaft für Museumgeschichte eV and the Kunsthalle zu Kiel. Kiel 2011.