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Online Exhibitions: Low cost, Big results! Strategies, tools and training for doing it yourself
This major international event will take place in Brussels on the 16th of September 2010 and will offer you the opportunity to learn about the project’s findings and network with other professionals in the cultural and ICT/media sectors. Taking place at the Royal Library of Belgium, situated in the heart of Brussels, you will be only a few minutes from many of the city’s major museums and its historical centre. The second day of the conference, on September 17th, the project partners are proposing two free workshops where you may produce your first digital exhibition and learn more about museums using Web 2.0 and the use of 3D technology in virtual worlds.Many institutions think more and more about doing a part of their public relations on the internet. More traditional forms require costly resources and are often only visible for a limited time. Moreover, many of the smaller institutions have hidden treasures in their collections, but because of financial restrictions may not be able to reach a larger audience. The “Digital Extra” project offers to sort out this problem. By creating a kind of toolkit to help create small, concise, well-presented online exhibition projects, Digital Extra has developed basic and advanced training courses that use simple methods to produce professional results. This event will provide the opportunity to learn about these training courses, techniques, strategies, and best e-practices that could be most useful when creating your online exhibitions.
The European Museum Forum Workshop about Art, Science and Heritage
The European Museum Forum Workshop ‘Art, Science and Heritage: Interdisciplinary Museum Projects in the Local Communities’ will be held in Turku, Finland, on 15–18 September 2010.
The workshop has been organised in cooperation with the Directorate of Culture and Cultural and Natural Heritage of the Council of Europe and with support from Kone Foundation.
Economics of the Visual Arts. International Symposium on Cultural Economics in Ljubljana
The symposium Economics of the Visual Arts is intended to bring together experts from the field of cultural economics, to discuss key issues of economics of the visual arts: arts markets and art auctions, copyright in the visual arts, economics of museums, policy and non-profit issues in the visual arts, labor market in the visual arts, etc. The topics will form guidelines for the lectures, performed by renowned experts from the field, coming from all over the world, mostly from countries where cultural economics has gained prominence in the past decades.
Apart from the invited speakers, the symposium will also host two panels, one with presentations of good practices in financing visual arts in Slovenia, and the other with presentations of selected young researchers.
Museums, Libraries, and 21st Century Skills
This project underscores the critical role of our nation’s museums and libraries in helping citizens build such 21st century skills as information, communications and technology literacy, critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, civic literacy, and global awareness.
At a time when increasingly advanced skills are required for success in life and work, people of all ages are seeking a diverse range of learning experiences to inspire, guide, and enhance their personal and professional lives.
Libraries and museums can embrace this opportunity to build on past achievements and chart promising new directions. One of these critical new directions involves developing a comprehensive, purposeful approach around 21st century skills. With 17,500 museums and 123,000 libraries across our nation, every community in the United States stands to benefit from the leadership of these institutions.
Germany’s Ozeaneum is the European Museum of the Year
At the European Museum of the Year Award Ceremony on Saturday 22nd of May, in front of an audience of more than 160 museum professionals from 22 European countries, the Ozeaneum Museum in Stralsund, Germany was announced as the winner of the European Museum of the Year Award for 2010.Narratives of Community: Museums and Ethnicity
This groundbreaking book brings together a collection of essays on the revolution taking place in museums around the world as they look anew at the ways communities are represented. It highlights a fundamental shift occurring in 21st century museums: how they confront existing assumptions about people, and the pioneering ways they work with specific groups to narrate oral histories, tell ancestral stories and keep memories from the past alive. The philosophical thread, woven through each essay, expresses a rejection of popular claims that minority people are necessarily silent, neglected and ignorant of the processes of representation. This book showcases contemporary museums as spaces of dialogue, collaboration, reclamation and storytelling. It acknowledges the radical efforts many museums and communities make to actively engage with and overthrow existing misconceptions, on the important subject of race and ethnicity.
Museum experiences that change visitors
Transform, transforming, and transformative are common terms for describing museum spaces, the creation of objects on display, and experiences for visitors. But is there evidence that museums profoundly change visitors through their objects, collections, exhibitions, public programs, and websites?
Communicating the Museum 2010
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Communicating the Museum was created in 2000 by Corinne Estrada, Managing founder of Agenda. The event originally taking place in Paris gathered a group of 15 French-British attendees in order to discuss communication issues. 8 years later, the conference peaked to a record 278 participants from all over the world after being welcomed by some of the most prestigious cultural venues in Europe including Paris, Madrid, Rotterdam, Venice, Malaga, Turin, and Valencia. Within ten years, Communicating the museum has asserted itself as the leading event for senior museum communication professionals to meet, exchange, network and work on problem solving key-issues.
New Thinking - Rules for the (R)evolution of Museums
This exciting new collection of essays by leading international museum practitioners focuses on the across-the-board innovations taking place in some of the world's most forward-thinking museums - and charts the new directions museums will need to take in today's increasingly challenging and competitive environment.
Heritage Impact 2010
Heritage Impact 2010 is the fifth international symposium on the socio-economic impact of heritage organised by the University of Brighton Business School. The symposium on 22 - 23 April, 2010, brings together some of the leading stakeholders in the heritage sector to consider the impact of heritage sites on society and the economy.
