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Exhibiting the History of Sound
Conference on Practice and Theory of Acoustic Historical Research and Communication
From December 9 to 10 2024 the Conference “Exhibiting the Sound of History. Practice and Theory of Acoustic Historical Research and Communication” will take place in Altona Museum Hamburg.
In the framework of an international conference the relationship between acoustics, spatial perception and knowledge transfer will be explored on two levels:
1. How do we integrate the historicity of sound and noise into a museum narrative?
2. What role does acoustics play in connection with the transfer of historical knowledge?
The conference is intended to bring historians, musicologists, curators, specialists for restoration and conservation, designers, psychoacoustics and visitor researchers into a fruitful and productive exchange about how the sound of history can lead to sensory-mediated knowledge.
“Exhibiting the Sound of History” is organized by the German Port Museum (Hamburg) and the German Maritime Museum (Bremerhaven) in cooperation with the Deutsches Museum (Munich), the Leibniz Institut für Wissensmedien as well as the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung PK (Berlin).