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The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Magazine - Winter 2008 - Spring 2009 |
Cover | From Our Director and Chairman | Campus Renewal Project: Work in Progress | New Exhibitions | Ruth Youth Wing | Happenings at Home | Special Events at Ticho House | Staff News | Out in the World | Museum on the Move | Traveling Exhibitions | International Events | In Memoriam | Selected Loans to Other Museums | Recent Publications | Selected New Aquisitions | People and Places | Acknowledgments | |
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Museum on the Move
IMJ Director James Snyder was among the officially invited guests who participated in the opening of the new Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, on November 22, 2008. The opening of the Museum, designed by I.M. Pei and culminating a decade-long effort to build a collection that would illuminate the heritage of Islamic art, was attended by international art world figures, including directors of major museums with important collections of Islamic art. James’s presence at the event underscored the Israel Museum’s role in this world community and highlighted the importance of cultural connections across the region.
No’am Bar’am Ben-Yossef, Curator in the Julia and Leo Forchheimer Department of Jewish Ethnography, participated in the annual meeting of the ICOM (International Council of Museums) Costume Committee in Santiago, Chile, in October 2008, presenting a paper on the transition of Jewish women’s dress in Baghdad and Calcutta in the early 20th century. She also participated in the ICME (International Committee for Museums of Ethnography) conference, held for the first time in Jerusalem in November 2008 on the theme of “Migration, Diaspora, Pilgrimage,” presenting a paper on how Jewish dress reflected an identity crisis among the Jews of Calcutta in their migration from the Baghdad Diaspora.
Dr. Daphna Ben-Tor, Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen Curator of Egyptian Archaeology, gave a lecture on Egyptian-Canaanite relations in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, as reflected through scarabs, at an international conference on “Egypt, Canaan, and Israel: History, Imperialism and Ideology from the Third to the First Millennium BCE,” organized by the Departments of Archaeology and Biblical Studies at the University of Haifa on May 3−5, 2009.
Amalyah Keshet, Head of Image Resources and Copyright Management, organized and moderated the panel “Second Lives: Copyright in Virtual Worlds” at “MCN 2008,” the Museum Computer Network’s annual conference held in Washington D.C. in November 2008. Amalyah is Chair of MCN’s Intellectual Property Group. While in Washington, she also attended meetings of the “ImageMuse” museum imaging standards group at the National Gallery of Art, and “PLUS,” an international photographic licensing standards initiative.
Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper, Curator in the Julia and Leo Forchheimer Department of Jewish Ethnography, participated in the ICME (International Committee for Museums of Ethnography) conference in Jerusalem in November 2008 on the theme of “Migration, Diaspora, Pilgrimage,” presenting a paper on “Costume of Exile – the Hasidic Costume.” Ester also represented the Museum at the 20th anniversary conference of the Association of European
Jewish Museums, held in Amsterdam on November 22−25, 2008, where she spoke about “New Developments in the Israel Museum: the Judaica and Jewish Ethnography Wing,” as well as her forthcoming exhibition on Hasidim.
Meira Perry-Lehmann, Michael Bromberg Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, participated in the 25th reunion of the International Advisory Committee of Keepers of Public Collections of Graphic Art, which took place in Dresden, Germany, in June 2008. Meira presented a paper on “Determining Positions of Graphic Art Collections,” dealing with anticipated changes in departments of prints and drawings.
Dr. Silvia Rozenberg, Rodney E. Soher Senior Curator of Classical Archaeology, participated in the quinquennial Congress of the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica, held in Rome in September 2008, on the subject of “Meeting of Cultures in the Ancient Mediterranean,” presenting a paper on the exceptional new finds from the Herodian temple at Omrit in the Upper Galilee. These finds are currently being treated in our restoration laboratories and will later be exhibited in an important exhibition in the Museum’s renewed galleries.
Dorit Shafir, Curator of the Arts of Africa and Oceania, participated in the October 2008 annual meeting of the Pacific Arts Association − Europe in Brussels, Ghent, and Antwerp. This year’s symposium focused on the cultural significance of the human body in the art of the peoples of the South Pacific, and the transference of indigenous knowledge to the West via artifacts of the South Pacific. Dorit is the Secretary of PAA-International and the editor of the PAA Newsletter.Nurit Shilo-Cohen, Senior Curator-at-Large for Museum Education, was invited to lecture on the role of the Museum’s Youth Wing at a conference about children in museums held at the Milan Triennale on January 29, 2009. The conference was organized by the city of Milan and “Hands On! Europe,” the international organization of children’s museums, of which Nurit is a board member.
Shlomit Steinberg, Hans Dichand Curator of European Art, was invited to Berlin by Prof. Dr. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste (Prussian Cultural Heritage and Coordination Office for Lost Cultural Assets), Germany’s central office for the documentation of lost cultural property, for a two-day symposium in December 2008, on the subject of “Taking Responsibility: Nazi-looted Art – A Challenge for Museums, Libraries, and Archives,” where she gave a lecture entitled “Between History and Methodology: Provenance Research in Museums.”