ethnographic museum in Leipzig in particular.

By way of introduction, considering exhibitions - whether permanent or temporary - as a theatre of objects (the latter not necessarily being material, as in "intangible culture" or "oral history"), we propose to approach the biography of the object by the multiplicity of appropriations and variety of uses/usages to which it is subject/object, as expression of the variety of temporalities it relates to.

Bernard Müller

Bernard Müller is a researcher/lecturer in social anthropologist (PhD 2000) and scientific/cultural program designer.

He studies staging processes such as scenic arrangements (theater, ritual, performance, etc.), museographic scenographies, or any type of situation that explicitly notes a form of "spectacle". Specialised in the cultural history of West Africa (Nigeria, Bénin Republic, Togo, Ghana), his basically comparative research also extends to otherareas (Europe, Brazil) ; and focuses on the relationship between art and science today.

For the last 12 years, in collaboration with Thierry Bonnot, he has directed the seminar « Putting on stage and into narration : objects, texts and performances » at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). He is member of the Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux, a laboratory for interdisciplinary research in social sciences.

Since octobre 2015 he coordinates « The Museum on the Couch » Seminar-Worshop at the Institut für Ethnologie at the University of Leipzig (Germany), in collaboration with the Sächsische Ethnographische Sammlungen (SES) and the IRIS-EHESS, an theoretical and practical space to reboot the worldmuseum concept.

As a cultural program designer, he conceived, counselled and implemented various cultural and