Keynote 10.00-11.00 Brian Ogilvie (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Commerce in insects: Collecting, exchanging, and selling specimens and images in the Enlightenment

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.00 Lærke Maria Andersen Funder (Aarhus University): An ideal museum? The reception of Museum Wormianum in early modern museography

12.00-12.30 Bert van de Roemer (University of Amsterdam): Art Opens the Book of Nature. Collecting practices in Dutch Cabinets of Curiosities around 1700

12.30-13.00 Magdalena Naum (Aarhus University): Collecting passions of Kilian Stobæus (1690-1742)

13.00-14.30 Lunch

14.30-15.00 Matthew Norris (Lund University): “At här efter beskydda och handhafwa”: The Allied Roles of Collection and Conservation in Johan Hadorph’s Antiquarian Project

15.00-15.30 Anne Eriksen (University of Oslo): Museum Universale. Samples and examples in the imaginary museums of J.N. Wilse

15.30-16.00 Valdemar H. Grambye (University of Southern Denmark): Collecting and mediating antiquities in 17th and 18th century Denmark

16.00-17.00 Coffee and discussion

The seminar is generously supported by the Carlsberg Foundation, the Research Program in Museology and MCH program in Archaeology Registration:

The seminar is free of charge and includes light refreshments morning and afternoon. For practical reasons you need to register by sending an email to Grambye@sdu.dk no later than November 19th 2018 

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