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Supported by UMAC-ICOM. Les musées universitaires connaissent, depuis le début du XXIe siècle, un véritable regain d’intérêt : fondation d’un réseau européen UNIVERSEUM (2000) et du Comité international pour les musées et collections universitaires (UMAC) au sein de l’ICOM (2001), rénovation de l’Ashmolean Museum à Oxford (2009) reconnu comme premier musée universitaire (1683), création de nouvelles réserves accessibles et rénovation du Conservatoire national des arts et métiers à Paris (2000). Ces quelques initiatives semblent incarner la volonté des acteurs universitaires…

Europeana 2019 is being held at the historic National Library of Portugal, Lisbon, whose vast and diversified heritage covers almost ten centuries of Portuguese history and culture.

Playing and operating: functionality in museum objects and instruments 4-6 February, 2020 Cité de la Musique – Philharmonie de Paris, France   CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for submissions: 22 October 2019 Museum collections are formed by selections of objects that represent snapshots of the complexity of the world at different times. As such their value resides as much in their physical supports, as in the representation of the cultural networks of meanings and interactions of which they were part. For…