“As our Brazilian colleagues assess the extent of the devastating loss to the world’s cultural heritage following the fire at their National Museum, we, the international museum community, are forced to face some hard facts about our sector.”
Read the full statement here
It’s never too late to remember the UMAC community that this remarkable recommendation exists since November 2015 to promote museums and their communities all over the world. In five languages.
The project Campus Martius, or how to become a citizen of Perm University, is the WINNER OF THE UMAC AWARD 2018.
Read more about Campus Martius, as well as the comments by the Evaluation Committee here.
UMAC congratulates the Perm University History Museum and Perm State University for this remarkable recognition.
The 2018 ICOM Annual Meetings in Paris, France, are just around the corner. As ICOM keeps expanding its membership across the world, finding new ways of connecting with our members has become our number one priority. For the first time, the Annual Meetings will be available through Facebook Live, making them accessible to the largest number of our members. Three sessions will be retransmitted on real time: the keynote speech, delivered by artist Fred Wilson, the General Assembly, and the vote on the city that will host the 2022 ICOM General Conference. We will also encourage participation through our other social media platforms, Twitter and Instagram, via the hashtag #JuneMeetings.
Read more here.
UMAC is delighted to announce that this year’s edition of the University Museum Training Week Shanghai is better than ever!
It will take place between 11 and 20 April at the Qian Xuesen Library and Museum, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Superb program.
See more info here.
The International Council of Museums is now on Instagram!
We are following ICOM already — what about you?
See the account here.
As a result of the VIII Encuentro de Museos Universitarios del Mercosur/V Encuentro de Museos de Latinoamérica y el Caribe/I Encuentro de Museos Universitarios de Perú, that took place in Lima, Peru, October 2017, a Charter was published (in Spanish), underlining the importance of university museums in Latin America.
The full text can be accessed here.
Website of ICOM Peru.
Volume 1: Museum Management
ICOM is developing a four-volume handbook series. The first volume of the series, co-edited by Darko Babić and Catherine C. Cole, aims to explore contemporary practices in the field of museum management.
Abstracts of between 250 and 300 words, written in English, French or Spanish, should be submitted to Aedín Mac Devitt at aedin.macdevitt@icom.museum
The submission deadline is 2 February, 2018.
UMAC invites all its members, as well as the broader community of university museums, collections and galleries to commemorate the INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY 2018.
Promoted by ICOM, the IMD 2018 takes place around May 18. It is a global event, with more than 36,000 museums from 157 countries participating last year.
Read more and register your activities here.
Issue No. 9 of our journal UMACJ was just launched! It includes papers presented at the 2016 UMAC Annual Conference in Milan, Italy.
