Following a short presentation by Svitlana Muravska at the UMAC Conference in Prague, last August, UMAC is organising this Thursday 29 September a meeting with Ukraine university museum professionals.
The meeting, live on UMAC YouTube channel, will count with UMAC Chair Andrew Simpson, the President of Universeum Sébastien Soubiran and Marta Lourenco.
Reminder: Convert our meeting times to your time zone using an online converter, for example https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html
Today, the UMAC Board 2022-2025 was elected at the 22nd Annual General Meeting, held online and transmitted live in our YouTube channel.
The winner of the UMAC Award 2022 was announced today.
It’s The Chinese University of Hong Kong (China), with UNIMINUTO (Colombia) and the University of Tokyo (Japan) in second place.
Read press release.
The UMAC AWARD celebrates excellence, creativity, and, more importantly, the impact of university museums and collections on their host universities, their communities and contemporary society.
The UMAC AWARD was created in 2016. It seeks to distinguish recent outstanding contributions to all areas of museum and collections theory and practice, particularly those with interdisciplinary approaches and potential wide application.
Read more about the UMAC AWARD 2022 here.
UMAC member Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art, Pan-Atlantic University, together with ICOM and ICOM Nigeria are organising a training week in Lagos.
See more information, grants, and dates in the ICOM website.
2022 SJTU T.D. LEE Science and Art Works Competition was launched on May 20 and widely solicited works. During the period, centering on the theme of “metamaterials”, Tsung-Dao LEE Library held The first course of science and art 2022, released The Scientific Theme “Metamaterials”, held The Special Session of 2022 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Tsung Dao Lee Science and Art Workshop and released the summer cloud lecture series successively. The experts and scholars brought wonderful series of reports and case displays around the theme, which attracted the wide attention of science and art creators, teachers and students.
Considering the influence of the epidemic and the request of the majority of contestants, the deadline for collection of works was extended to September 30 decided by the SJTU T.D. LEE Science and Art Committee. Meanwhile, the time of first round evaluation and Second round evaluation will be adjusted accordingly. Please continue to pay attention to the follow-up notice for specific arrangements.
The website of 2022 SJTU T.D. LEE Science and Art Works Competition
The summer cloud lecture series
SJTU T.D. LEE Science and Art Committee
August, 2022
6 September (Tue), 9:00 (Lisbon), 16:00 (Hong Kong), 17:00 (Tokyo)
Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time Travel・Hong Kong
8 September (Thu), 9:00 (Lisbon), 17:00 (Tokyo)
The University Museum, the University of Tokyo (UMUT) / Intermediatheque
Orchids Blossom – Botanical Art Collections from the University of Tokyo
13 September (Tue), 14:00 (Lisbon), 8:00 (Bogota), 22:00 (Tokyo)
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá
THESIS project
WINNER: to be announced on September 18, at 12:00 Lisbon/London time: https://youtu.be/Tj25wca1KbY
The UMAC AWARD 2022 finalists have been announced today by Akiko Fukuno and Marta Lourenco.
Learn who they are here. And watch the announcement on UMAC YouTube channel:
The announcement of the winner of the UMAC AWARD 2022 will be made live in our YouTube channel. Save the date: Sunday, 18 September, 12 PM Lisbon/London time.
We are glad and proud to inform that Steph Scholten, Vice-Chair of UMAC, was elected to the ICOM Executive Board during the 26th ICOM General Conference in Prague.
This week, during the 26th ICOM general conference in Prague, a new museum definition was approved with 92.41% of the votes.
https://icom.museum/en/news/icom-approves-a-new-museum-definition/
UMAC voted in favour of the new definition. Next, the text will be translated into several languages and, in some countries, into legislation and accreditation systems.
I profit to express our gratitude to all UMAC members who contributed to the several stages of the new definition consultation. The process was remarkably balanced, inclusive and well led by Bruno Brulon (Brazil) and Lauran Bonilla-Merchav (Costa Rica).
Marta Lourenco, UMAC Chair
