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View all search resultsUnilateral Efforts from Museums Around the World
Indonesian Museum Day, which has been celebrated every year for the past seven years, took place on Oct. 12.
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ndonesian Museum Day, which has been celebrated every year for the past seven years, took place on Oct. 12. This year, the commemoration was centered in Yogyakarta in conjunction with the golden anniversary of the Yogyakarta Museum Association (Barahmus), which was marked by the holding of Festival Museum Yogyakarta 2021 beginning on Aug. 7 with various online events like international and local museum seminars, an exhibition, the book launch of Pancadasa Warsa Kencana Barahmus (50 years of Barahmus), social activities and the barahmus.org website launch, which offers much information on the museums found in Yogyakarta.
The international seminars, which were held twice as part of Festival Museum Yogyakarta 2021, are hoped to be a milestone for future sustainable collaboration between museums in Indonesia and around the world.
The first international seminar on Aug. 12, was opened by Dr. Hilmar Farid, culture director general from the Education, Culture, Research and Technology Ministry. In his speech he stated the importance of innovation from every museum to overcome the COVID-19 situation that has struck museums all over the world, with Indonesia no exception.
The seminar was delivered by international curators from famous museums worldwide, comprising Alexandra Green from the British Museum, Francine Brinkgreve from Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden, Ruth Barnes from Yale University Art Gallery, Yilan Wang from the China Silk Road Museum and Carol Cains from the National Gallery of Canberra, while from local museums there were Dahlia Kusuma Dewi from Museum Konferensi Asia Afrika (The Asia-Africa Conference Museum), Sri Hartini from Museum Perkebunan Indonesia (The Indonesian Plantation Museum) and others.
This seminar was attended by more than 700 museum lovers and practitioners, both nationwide and around the world through Zoom, with over 500 others watching through other platforms. There were lots of interesting questions in the chat box, reflecting the enthusiasm of the participants for this international seminar.
The second international seminar was held on Tuesday, Oct. 12. This was attended by more outstanding speakers including Paul Taylor from the Smithsonian Institution, Peter Lee, a scholar from Singapore who created a famous TV series on Majapahit and Joanna Barrkman from UCLA Fowler Museum, while from local institutions there were Sri Hartini from The National Museum of Indonesia who presented on the new management of state museums and other speakers who discussed decolonizing museum objects and much more.
Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Sandiaga Uno, who opened the second seminar, gave his appreciation for the international seminars as part of Festival Museum Yogyakarta. In his opening speech, Sandiaga emphasized the need to develop thematic tourism routes by involving museums and cultural heritage as the main attractions. He also spoke about strengthening the narrative/storytelling, as well as the use of technology and pentahelix collaboration.
According to Daniel Haryodiningrat from Barahmus Yogyakarta, who was the initiator of the international seminar, beside the importance of celebrating the anniversary and commemoration of National Museum Day, this seminar was designed to aid sustainable collaborations in the future. In particular, he spoke about online exhibitions with the same objectives and themes running simultaneously, or consecutively, or blockbuster exhibitions. In the past, blockbuster exhibitions have run in various places, such as on Egyptian mummies, the Terracotta Chinese Army and the Centennial Titanic held in several major cities around the world simultaneously or consecutively. The need for collaboration was also expressed by Carol Cains from the National Gallery of Australia in her closing remarks during the first seminar, to show how Indonesian art and culture belongs to the world community.
Gusti Kanjeng Ratu Bendara, the head of the committee for the 50th Barahmus Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY0 and Festival Museum Yogyakarta 2021, hoped the inspiration from these outstanding speakers would bring benefits to Indonesian museums, becoming a milestone in collaboration with museums around the world for repackaging culture. "Hopefully this series of activities will be the right opportunity to invite museum colleagues to repackage culture together, to repackage museums, because there is no ‘ancient’ culture and history, only packaging that needs to be changed." said Gusti Kanjeng Ratu Bendara, closing the second international seminar.
