Matters of Knowledge. Paradigms and Practices of Conservation through the Centuries

Thursday, June 5 2025

9.45–10 Welcome and Introduction 

10–11.30 Documentation and Exhibition of Museum Work

Moderator: Séverine Cattin 

Isabelle Le Pape: Exposer les coulisses du musée : dévoilements et mises en abyme 

Julie Hochenedel: Transforming the Museum into Heritage: Photographs of Exhibition Spaces in the Louvre Museum 

Coffee Break 

12.00–13.00 Keynote Lecture

Moderator: Valérie Kobi 

Lauren R. Cannady: Paper Gardens: Cataloguing Change in Early Modern Botanical Thinking  

13.00–15.00 Lunch Break 

15.00–16.30  Practices of Conservation in a Global Perspective

Moderator: Natania Girardin 

Marie-Charlotte Lamy: The Race for the Mounted Specimen: The Art of Taxidermy in the Museum Context of the 19th Century 

Karolyna de Paula Koppke: Two Conservator-Restorers in Nineteenth-Century Americas: Carlos Luiz Do Nascimento (1812–1876) and Vicente Huitrado (?–1890) 

17.00–18.00 Nommer les Natures – Histoire naturelle et héritage colonial 

Exhibition visit at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Neuchâtel, Rue des Terreaux 14

Friday, June 6 2025 

9.15–12.00 Genius loci and Classifications

Moderator: Remo Stämpfli 

Alexandre Claude: Unchanging materials? Preserving stones in early modern European collections

Felicity Myrone and Ce Stevenson: Library or Print Room? New insights into the collecting and care of graphic materials at the British Museum 

10.45–11.15     Coffee Break 

Federica Mancini: Des paradigmes et des pratiques à faire évoluer : le cas du fonds graphique Picot-Brocard conservé au musée du Louvre 

12:00– 13:45 Lunch Break 

13.45–15.15 Nationalism, Transculturation, and Identity Politics

Moderator: Chonja Lee 

Yuka Kadoi: From Shrine to Museum. Demonumentalising Persian Architectural Heritage 

Charlotte Rottier: The Making of a "Musée Belge" Abroad? Private and State Art Collections on Display in Diplomatic Interiors (1900–1940) 

15.15 Closing Remarks