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About Samdok – Collectingnet – Publications ABOUT SAMDOK Samdok is a voluntary association of Swedish museums of cultural history and their network for contemporary studies and collecting. Through Samdok, the museums carry on broad, qualitative research into our own times, aiming to deepen our knowledge and understanding of people, conditions and phenomena, both in the past, the present and in the future. The members of Samdok Samdok was founded in 1977 and has currently about eighty members:  county museums, municipal museums, national museums, and specialist museums, along with some other institutions. The members co-operate in working groups known as “pools”. Each museum chooses the pool/s they wish to work with and each museum implements and finances its own studies. The content and directions are discussed and planned together with the colleagues in the pool. After each project, a new piece is added to the Samdok collection of contemporary studies of Sweden.The pools There are seven such working groups within the Samdok association. Five of these represent fields of human activity – places and situations – where we meet people of today. These are the pools for Domestic life and leisure, Local and Regional Spheres, Management of Natural Resources, Politics and Society, Manufacture and Services. One, the pool for Sami Life, focuses on an indigenous ethnic minority. Finally, there is the Group for Cultural Encounters, with a mission to integrate cultural-encounter perspectives in all pools. The core of the Samdok work is the studies and collection carried on in the pools by the respective museums. Each pool assembles twice a year. Besides ventilating museum projects, they discuss contemporary issues, theoretical, methodological and ethical questions; they invite researchers, organize study visits and field seminars. Each pool, too, has worked out a programme of action that acts as a common guideline for the group. Samdok Secretariat and Samdok Council The administration of Samdok is managed by the Samdok Secretariat, located at the Nordiska Museet (the national museum of cultural history in Sweden). The Secretariat is also responsible for development work and information. This is carried out in various ways – by organizing conferences, seminars and training courses, by specific projects, by the periodical Samtid & museer (The Present Day & Museums) Samtid o museer and other publications. The Secretariat also administers Samdoks web-site, including a database containing facts about the museums’ contemporary studies, and participates in the activities of the individual pools. The overall decision-making body is the Samdok Council, consisting of representatives for national, county and municipal museums. In addition, there is the Research Council, which constitutes a link with universities and colleges. For further information, please contact Samdoksekretariatet, COLLECTINGNET The international conference Connecting Collecting took place 15-16 November 2007. For further information press: Invitation Programme Selection of conference images Conference publication, Eva Fägerborg & Elin von Unge (eds) 2008: The conference attracted almost 150 participants from nineteen countries, and was also the starting point of a new international network, Collectingnet. As a basis for the work the following declaration was presented and agreed upon: An international museum network for collecting issues All over the world museums are engaged in contemporary issues, collecting, and research. Creating knowledge through continuous and well thought-out collecting is a basis for the future development of museums. Questions arising today are how museums can study and collect the global society, and how museum collections can represent the increasingly complex and diverse audiences that they serve. New conditions, scientific, ideological and ethical considerations have consequences for collecting policies and practices – for the cultural heritage, embracing both material and immaterial aspects of human life that museums produce and preserve. The challenge is common and museums need to learn about each other’s views, methods, and experiences. Collecting issues are relevant for all museums, irrespective of their size and subject field. Collaboration across borders is essential for the development of museums as knowledge institutions. Therefore, museum professionals from twenty countries, gathered at the conference Connecting Collecting at the Nordiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, 15-16 November 2007, have initiated the formation of an international collecting network. The aim is to become a forum for extended dialogue and collaboration on the meanings and implications of the museums’ mission to collect, on collecting policies and practices, and on the role of collecting in museum work in general. In connection with the conference a working group has been formed, with the commission to develop the tasks of the network and to initiate a dialogue with ICOM regarding the forthcoming application process for the establishment of a new international ICOM committee. Welcome to join the network by sending an e-mail to Collectingnet Newsletter No 1 (pdf) Collectingnet Newsletter No 2 (pdf) Collectingnet Newsletter No 3 (pdf) Collectingnet Newsletter No 4 (pdf) Collectingnet Newsletter No 5 (pdf) Collectingnet Newsletter No 6 (pdf) Collectingnet Newsletter No 7 (pdf) Collectingnet Newsletter No 8 (pdf) Collectingnet Newsletter No 9 (pdf) Collectingnet Newsletter No 10 (pdf) RECENT PUBLICATIONS ON SAMDOK In English Von Unge, Elin 2008: When culture becomes heritage. In search of the Samdok discourse of collecting contemporary heritage. International Museum Studies Master’s Thesis, Göteborgs universitet (University of Gothenburg): Museion. (pdf) Samtid & museer No 2, 2007: Connecting Collecting – 30 years of Samdok For thirty years, Swedish museums of cultural history have explored contemporary society within the network of Samdok. This issue of our periodical Samtid & museer (“The Present Day & Museums”) is an up-to-date presentation of Samdok’s work for an international readership. Samtid & museer pdf Bursell, Barbro 2004: Professional collecting. Knell, Simon J. (Ed.) Museums and the Future of Collecting. Aldershot: Ashgate (first edition 1999). Fägerborg, Eva 2004. Contemporary Collecting for Today and Tomorrow: The Samdok Experience. Museum Ireland, Volume 14. Steen, Anna 2004: Samdok: tools to make the world visible. Knell, Simon J. (Ed.) Museums and the Future of Collecting. Aldershot: Ashgate (first edition 1999). En français Silvén-Garnert, Eva 1999. Le projet suédois SAMDOC à la veille du nouveau millénaire. ICOM Cahier d’étude/Study Series 6, ICR Le Comité international de l’ICOM pour les musées regionaux/ICOM’s International Committee for Regional Museums. Available on-line http://icom.museum/ss-icr/contents.html Auf Deutsch Paulisch, Svante 2008. Unsere Gegenwart für die Zukunft. Das Museumsnetzwerk SAMDOK: 30 Jahre Gegenwartsdokumentation in Schweden. Wissenschaftliche Arbeit zur Erlangung des Akademische Grades eines Magister Artium im Fach Europäische Ethnologie an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Kjerström Sjölin, Eva 2003. Fokus Gegenwart. Die aktuelle Diskussion und Praxis der Dokumentation schwedischer Museen. Carstensen, Jan (Hg.) Die Dinge umgehen? Sammeln und Forschen in kulturhistorischen Museen. Schriften des Westfälischen Freilichtmuseums Detmold 23. In italiano Fägerborg, Eva 2007: Creazione di un patrimonio attraverso la collezione di oggetti contemporanei. Oggetto industriale, soggetto di memoria. Provincia di Milano. |
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