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Homme de dos habillé en bleu regardant une photo accrochée au mur, entouré de sculptures
Vue de l’exposition permanente Les îles réunies, Musée d’art de Joliette.
Photo : Romain Guilbault
Charpente en bois rouge d'une cabine placé sur le roc près du golfe du fleuve Saint-Laurent.
Liam Gillick, « Un quantificateur de variabilité » (La station météorologique rouge de l’île Fogo), 2022, commandé en 2022 par le Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa.
© Liam Gillick. Photo: courtesy of the artist
Vue de l’exposition Actes de présence dans le cadre de la série Point de vue sur la Collection présentée au Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal du 4 novembre 2010 au 27 mars 2011.
Photo : Richard-Max Tremblay

CIÉCO brings together the main axes of study in francophone museology in Quebec and in Canada, both in the university and in the museum contexts, focusing on examining the new uses of collections and art museums. Basic research activities and those carried out in partnership with museums and other cultural organizations as well as research-creation projects bring together researchers, artists, professional museum staff, post-doctoral fellows, and students from museum and educational institutions in Quebec, Canada, and abroad.

Territorial Acknowledgement

The CIÉCO Research and Inquiry Group acknowledges that the three Quebec universities from which it was created, ​​namely, the Université de Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal, and the Université du Québec en Outaouais, are located on unceded Indigenous lands which have long been inhabited by many Indigenous Peoples. It is therefore our duty to contribute to raising awareness of Canada’s colonial history and to promote respect for Indigenous knowledge and cultures.

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Encyclopedia of New Uses of Collections

The Partnership’s major unifying project is the production of the first Encyclopedia of New Uses of Collections. This open-access reference work will mobilize the expertise of all the participants. The Encyclopedia draws from multidisciplinary theoretical perspectives (anthropology, museology, and sociology), historical and diachronic approaches, and exemplary case studies. The uniqueness of its content lies in the neglected terrain it analyzes and in its standpoint of examining new uses following the stages of life of the collection object—namely, acquisition, documentation and restoration, display, mediation, circulation, alienation, and restitution. Hence, this approach gives access to the entire range of museum practices.

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