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Insa Müller

Insa Müller

Associate Professor
Department of Historical and Classical Studies
Faculty of Humanities

insa.muller@ntnu.no
+4773559296 Bygg 6, 6522, Dragvoll, Edvard Bulls veg 1
Bachelorprogram kulturminneforvaltning Masterprogram kulturminneforvaltning
About Publications Teaching Media

About

I am Associate Professor in Cultural Heritage Management. My research interests lie in the intersection of museology, cultural heritage and memory studies, history didactics and digital heritage, I am especially interested in combining research with practice in the heritage field. Since 2019 I act as special adviser for community dialogue at Stiklestad National Culture Centre (SNK).

Completed projects: 

In remote areas of Europe, local history museums struggle to connect with the rapidly changing and increasingly diverse communities around them.

In my doctoral thesis I ask how these museums can recast themselves to strengthen the links to their communities. Combining theoretical deliberations, empirical investigations of the case of two Norwegian islands and a museum experiment, the thesis offers starting points for rethinking the local history museum, while at the same time providing suggestions for locally adapted museum practice.

https://www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-5191-1/the-local-museum-in-the-global-village

Ongoing research:

MeMin - Mediating Memorial Landscapes.

The MeMin project addresses a challenge that digitalisation poses for cultural dissemination and cultural policy: Access to advanced digital technology opens up endless possibilities, but we lack knowledge about how technology changes the media and the cultural practices which they are part of.

MeMin is funded by the Arts Council Norway, the Falstad Centre and the Faculty of Humanities at NTNU.

On 3 February 2021, project leader Ingvild Hagen Kjørholt gave a presentation at the international webinar «The Digitalisation of Memory», organized by the Falstad Centre in cooperation with POLIN Museum, Warsaw. Recordings from the webinar are available on Youtube (the presentation of the MeMin project starts at 1:22:35).

Teaching: 

NORD2312 - Litterære kulturmøter og kulturell identitet: Norsk som andrespråk (course coordinator)

KULMI1000 Introduksjon til kulturvern (course coordinator)

KULMI2300 Introduction to museology (course coordinator)

KULMI2400 Period of Practical Training and Project Work in Cultural Heritage (course coordinator)

KULMI2710 Local History

KULMI3210 Museology

KULMI3215 Museology and Heritage Learning (course coordinator)

KULMI3090 Master's Thesis in Cultural Heritage Management

ARK3250 Museology

I supervise bachelor and master theses.

Competencies

  • Community
  • Contemporary collecting and documentation
  • Cultural heritage
  • Digital heritage
  • Historical consciousness
  • Interviews
  • Museology
  • Remembering studies
  • Social Role of Museums
  • Visitor studies
  • Visitor studies in museums

Publications

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2023

  • Müller, Insa. (2023) Fortiden i våre hender. Museumsnytt.
    Chronicle

2022

  • Kjørholt, Ingvild Hagen; Hjorth, Ingeborg Arntine Heitmann; Müller, Insa; Storeide, Anette Homlong. (2022) Det medierte minnestedet. En studie av Falstad digital rekonstruksjon. Estetiske praksiser i den digitale produksjonens tidsalder.
    Academic chapter/article

2021

  • Müller, Insa; Hjorth, Ingeborg Arntine Heitmann. (2021) «Du ser noe som faktisk ikke er der lenger»: Meningsskaping gjennom bruk av et digitalt verktøy på et historisk sted. Norsk museumstidsskrift.
    Academic article

2020

  • Bäckström, Mattias; Tretvik, Aud Mikkelsen; Hove, Jon Olav; Müller, Insa. (2020) Innspill til Høringsutkast til etiske retningslinjer for norske museer, Norsk ICOM og Norges museumsforbund (ePhorte saksnummer 2020/16248). 2020.
    Report
  • Kjørholt, Ingvild Hagen; Müller, Insa; Storeide, Anette Homlong; Hjorth, Ingeborg Arntine Heitmann. (2020) Tomme minnesteder og virtuelle rom 75 år etter frigjøringen. Adresseavisen.
    Letter to the editor
  • Müller, Insa. (2020) The Local Museum in the Global Village Rethinking Ideas, Functions, and Practices of Local History Museums in Rapidly Changing Diverse Communities. Transcript Verlag. 2020. ISBN 978-3-8376-5191-1.
    Scientific monography

2019

  • Tretvik, Aud Mikkelsen; Hove, Jon Olav; Müller, Insa; Næss, Christina. (2019) Ny stortingsmelding om kulturminnepolitikken - innspel frå Program for kulturminneforvaltning, NTNU. 2019.
    Report

2018

  • Müller, Insa. (2018) The Local Museum in the Global Village. The Idea, Functions and Practices of Local History Museums in Rapidly Changing Diverse Communities. 2018. ISBN 978-82-326-3376-0.
    PhD thesis

2016

  • Mellemsether, Hanna; Müller, Insa. (2016) From Audience to Participants: Engaging through dialogue. Open Heritage: Changing Museums. Changing Communities. Changing Traditions.
    Academic chapter/article

Scientific articles

  • Müller, Insa; Hjorth, Ingeborg Arntine Heitmann. (2021) «Du ser noe som faktisk ikke er der lenger»: Meningsskaping gjennom bruk av et digitalt verktøy på et historisk sted. Norsk museumstidsskrift.
    Academic article

Journal publications

  • Müller, Insa. (2023) Fortiden i våre hender. Museumsnytt.
    Chronicle
  • Kjørholt, Ingvild Hagen; Müller, Insa; Storeide, Anette Homlong; Hjorth, Ingeborg Arntine Heitmann. (2020) Tomme minnesteder og virtuelle rom 75 år etter frigjøringen. Adresseavisen.
    Letter to the editor

Books

  • Müller, Insa. (2020) The Local Museum in the Global Village Rethinking Ideas, Functions, and Practices of Local History Museums in Rapidly Changing Diverse Communities. Transcript Verlag. 2020. ISBN 978-3-8376-5191-1.
    Scientific monography

Part of book/report

  • Kjørholt, Ingvild Hagen; Hjorth, Ingeborg Arntine Heitmann; Müller, Insa; Storeide, Anette Homlong. (2022) Det medierte minnestedet. En studie av Falstad digital rekonstruksjon. Estetiske praksiser i den digitale produksjonens tidsalder.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Mellemsether, Hanna; Müller, Insa. (2016) From Audience to Participants: Engaging through dialogue. Open Heritage: Changing Museums. Changing Communities. Changing Traditions.
    Academic chapter/article

Report

  • Bäckström, Mattias; Tretvik, Aud Mikkelsen; Hove, Jon Olav; Müller, Insa. (2020) Innspill til Høringsutkast til etiske retningslinjer for norske museer, Norsk ICOM og Norges museumsforbund (ePhorte saksnummer 2020/16248). 2020.
    Report
  • Tretvik, Aud Mikkelsen; Hove, Jon Olav; Müller, Insa; Næss, Christina. (2019) Ny stortingsmelding om kulturminnepolitikken - innspel frå Program for kulturminneforvaltning, NTNU. 2019.
    Report
  • Müller, Insa. (2018) The Local Museum in the Global Village. The Idea, Functions and Practices of Local History Museums in Rapidly Changing Diverse Communities. 2018. ISBN 978-82-326-3376-0.
    PhD thesis

Teaching

Courses

  • KULMI2300 - Introduction to Museology
  • KULMI3080 - Practise
  • KULMI2710 - Local History with Archivistics
  • KULMI3090 - Master's Thesis in Cultural Heritage Management
  • KULMI3215 - Museology and heritage learning

Media

2023

  • Lecture
    Müller, Insa; Rikstad, Gunhild. (2023) Læring på museum. Museet som alternativ læringsarena i lærerutdanningen . Institutt for lærerutdanning, NTNU; Trondheim. 2023-01-18 - 2023-01-18.

2022

  • Lecture
    Müller, Insa. (2022) Potenziale lokaler Narrative im Museum. Kunstlokal Festival Symposium Potentials of locality . Kunstlokal Das Festival im Zürcher Oberland; Wetzikon. 2022-10-08 - 2022-10-08.

2021

  • Lecture
    Müller, Insa. (2021) Hva slags føringer legger den nye museumsmeldingen for museenes dialog og mangfoldsarbeid?. Uenighetsfelleskap i museene - åpen fagseminar . Mangfoldsnettverk - Nasjonal museumsnettverk for minoriterter og kulturelt mangfold; Oslo interkulturelt museum og digital. 2021-12-10 - 2021-12-10.

2020

  • Academic lecture
    Beistad Øvergård, Heidi Anett; Müller, Insa. (2020) The Symbol and Its Stories: Transforming the National Symbol Stiklestad Into an Inclusive Museum. The Inclusive Museum Conference . Inclusive Museum research network; Portugal / digital. 2020-09-03 - 2020-09-05.

2018

  • Lecture
    Müller, Insa. (2018) foredrag og diskusjon. Arbeidsgruppemøte "Demokrati og voksenopplæring - museer og minnesteder som utvidet læringsarena . Stiklestad nasjonale kultursenter; Stiklestad. 2018-12-01 - 2018-12-01.

2017

  • Popular scientific lecture
    Müller, Insa. (2017) Innlegg til debatt: Museenes samfunnsrolle. Museer på vidvanke? Hvor ble det av Tronhjemshistorien . HIFO Trøndelag og Fortidsminneforening; Trondheim. 2017-04-03 - 2017-04-03.

2016

  • Lecture
    Müller, Insa. (2016) Engaging with members of migrant communities through interviews. ICOM Milano: 24th General Conference of the International Council of Museums . ICOM; Milano. 2016-07-03 - 2016-07-09.
  • Academic lecture
    Müller, Insa. (2016) Interviews as a tool for engaging immigrants with local history. Museum Studies at Leicester 50th Anniversary Conference: The Museum in the Global Contemporary: Debating the Museum of Now . School of Museum Studies at Leicester University; Leicester. 2016-04-20 - 2016-04-22.

2015

  • Lecture
    Müller, Insa. (2015) Enganging communities. Seminar on documentation and representation of minorities in museum . Astra Museum, Romania and Museene i Sør-Trøndelag, Norway; Sverresborg, Trondheim. 2015-04-29 - 2015-04-29.
  • Lecture
    Müller, Insa. (2015) det dialogiske intervjuet. KULMiST fagdag ; 2015-09-21 - 2015-09-21.

2013

  • Lecture
    Müller, Insa. (2013) Det lokale museet i den globale landsbyen. fagdag statsarkivet og MiST . statsarkivet og Museene i Sør-Trøndelag; 2013-10-28 - 2013-10-28.
  • Academic lecture
    Müller, Insa. (2013) Det relevante lokalmuseet i et flerkulturelt samfunn. Det relevante museum . Kulturrådet og andre; 2013-10-07 - 2013-10-11.
  • Lecture
    Müller, Insa. (2013) "Hvorfor har vi bygdemuseer i dag? Hva kan et lite bygdemuseum gjøre? Hva bør det gjøre?". Levende museer i Arktis Workshop & styringsgruppemøte, Midt-Troms Museum . Midt-Troms Museum; 2013-09-05 - 2013-09-08.
  • Academic lecture
    Müller, Insa. (2013) The Local Museum in the Global Village: Engaging with Community through Interviews. Inclusive Museum Conference ; Copenhagen. 2013-04-22 - 2013-04-24.

2012

  • Academic lecture
    Mueller, Insa. (2012) Historie og historier i et globalisert lokalsamfunn - er det rom for lokale museer?. KOMOPP opplevelseskonferanse . NTNUs satsning på opplevelsesnæring; Trondheim. 2012-11-29 - 2012-11-29.
  • Academic lecture
    Mueller, Insa. (2012) The local museum in the global village: Engaging with community through interviews. Museale og arkivale praksiser . Kulturrådet; Oslo. 2012-11-29 - 2012-11-30.
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