REQUEST FOR ATTENDING THE SYMPOSIUM OR PRESENTING A COMMUNICATION
A three-day seminar
around the collections of extra European objects.
Musée Muséum départemental des Hautes-Alpes. Gap (France
).BOWS AND ARROWS
Improving knowledge and preservation of the ethnographic collections
of extra-European archery.
April 4, 5 and 6
th2012.
The project:
Since 2009, the Musée Museum départemental des Hautes Alpes (France) has been undertaking a series of missions dealing with a retrospective inventory. These tasks have given an opportunity to extend the work done on the collections and to rediscover fabulous series of artifacts which had been forgotten.
In the course of 2010, the museum has offered an exhibition entitled “l’Arc du Naturel” to a wide audience. This exhibition has been set up in collaboration with Alain Sunyol and the Society of Archers-Antiquaries. This event enabled the numerous visitors to see a selection of archery items from the museum collections and to be informed of the state of our research through “a visitor’s notebook”. From May 2011, the public has been able to see part of the Sunyol collection in the “Terra Amata” museum of human paleontology in Nice (France).
The rediscovery of such collections in the cellars of a museum raises a few problems.
Which scientific methodology should be used to retrace the history of these objects? Is it possible to conduct a study of the object through experimentation? Which techniques should be used, and which choices taken in the preservation of such collections?
What position should archery be granted in museal or ethnographic collections?
This seminar will give the researchers the opportunity to examine the museum collections, to share information from everyone’s knowledge or experience, and to
contribute to a common work in order to get a better insight on this type of objects.
The Museum administration wishes to welcome numerous experts in the realm of toxophily, In order to constitute groups of competence which can open on the exchange of individual discoveries and practice.
These three days will be divided in two parts:
one day for lectures and debates, opened to researchers, a wide public and the Press.
two days of work in the main rooms and the museum reserves for the researchers and the specialists.
A publication will be issued at the end of the seminar.
Programme (subject to modifications) Wednesday, April 4th 2012:
Workshops, open to specialists. Work on the museum’s collections.
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Thursday, April 5th 2012:
Workshops, open to specialists. Work on the museum’s collections.
Friday, April 6th 2012:
Lectures and debates. Open to the public.
PRE-INSCRIPTION
. Please e-mail to j.rigaud@cg05.fr
Name:
First name:
Institution:
Position:
E-mail address:
Telephone number:
I wish to attend the following days: (please, tick)
*Wednesday, April 4th 2012.
*Thursday, April 5th 2012.
*Friday, April 6th 2012.
On the 6th of April, I intend to present A communication:
A poster:
POSTER / COMMUNICATION SCHEDULE
Documents should be sent before January 15th 2012. In French or in English; 2000 signs, spaces included.
Feed-back January 20th .
Final text should be ready before March 1st 2012. 20000 signs, spaces included.
