Marta Lourenço, UMAC President, sent a message to the participants of the International Meeting Organismos Museologicos Hiperconectados, next week in Paraguay.
Read the message here (in Portuguese).
Marta Lourenço, UMAC President, sent a message to the participants of the International Meeting Organismos Museologicos Hiperconectados, next week in Paraguay.
Read the message here (in Portuguese).
Preliminary programme and Call for proposals just announced!
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The Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Argentina, created an OBSERVATORY OF UNIVERSITY MUSEUMS.
The Observatory is an interdisciplinary project that encourages the reflection, analysis and innovation in the practices of the museums of the UNLP. It proposes a space for study and collective construction in order to contribute to the formulation of proposals and actions on subjects regarding the patrimony, that have an impact in social, cultural, economic and political contexts.
More information here.
Contact:
Mariana Santamaría | Museo de Física | Salas Museo de la Biblioteca Pública | UNLP
mariana@fisica.unlp.edu.ar / wassap +54 9 221 6037324
Last week, during the XIV Jornadas museologicas Chilenas at the Casa Central de la Universidad de Chile, there was a meeting of the Group UMAC in Chile.
In the photo, Karin Weil (Universidad Austral de Chile) and Margarita Guzman (Universidad del Rosario, ICOM-Chile), among colleagues from university museums and collections in Chile.
UMAC wishes all the best to this important national network in Latin America!
ICOM and the Organising Committee of Kyoto 2019 are grateful for the Getty Foundation’s support to bring participants from countries with emerging economies to attend the 25th Triennial General Conference.
Learn more and apply here.
During the International Symposium ‘Activities of University Museums and their Significance’, organised by the University Museum Association of Kyoto, at the end of last month, Kyoto University Museum and National Cheng Kung University Museum (NCKU), Taiwan, signed their second MoU to extend cooperation for another five years.
NCKU Museum visited Kyoto University Museum unofficially in 2008 for the first time after its own establishment in 2007 in order to learn from the experience of Kyoto. The first MoU between Kyoto University Museum and NCKU Museum was signed in 2013. Since then, they have been cooperating in collection research, academic symposiums, and management experience exchange. A recent cooperation is a collection research by a curator from NCKU Museum to study the collection of Taiwan’s aboriginals at Kyoto University, which will be exhibited in Taipei with a special traveling exhibition of the 14 members of University Museum Association of Kyoto in December 2019.
With this renewed MoU, NCKU Museum and Kyoto University Museum will soon cooperate in the planning of a traveling exhibition to Taiwan in 2020.
University of Cambridge, UK
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UMAC is delighted to inform that the nominations for the UMAC Award 2019 are now open.
Deadline: 31 December 2018, 5 PM London time.
See more information here.
UMAC President, Marta Lourenço, recently signed two significant agreements in Shanghai, spin offs of UMAC’s partnership with the Qian Xuesen Library and Museum of Shanghai Jiao Tong University since 2016.
The first is for the development of a university museum app for iOS and Android (pilot version).
This is a partnership with The Electronic Science and Technology Museum (ESTM) of the University Electronic Science and Technology (UESTC) in Chengdu. This is a university museum, and the first comprehensive electronic science and technology museum in China. UMAC President Marta Lourenco says “We are committed to increasing the visibility of university museums and collections worldwide. With the ubiquity of hand held devices these days, this development will make UMAC’s world-wide database more accessible to a broader global audience.” “We believe China’s Electronic Science and Technology Museum, as a university museum are excellent partners for this enterprise. We are delighted to be working with them. It will bring data about university museums to everyone’s phone.”
The second is the translation of Journal editions into Chinese. This is an agreement with Shanghai University Museum. UMAC has been publishing a journal since 2001. This agreement will make the University Museums and Collections Journal (UMACJ) available to a new and large sector of museum practitioners and university administrators.
UMACJ Editor Andrew Simpson says “We are working towards making UMACJ the primary academic source for the emerging speciality of university museum work. This agreement will engage Chinese university museum curators and scholars in the work of UMAC”.
Read the full media release.
Opuscula Musealia, an international journal established in 1986 by the Museum of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, is inviting submissions of manuscripts for an upcoming issue, devoted to museum collections. Articles are welcome on (although not exclusively):
– history of collecting and collections
– historical and modern collecting practices
– forgotten or lost collections
– intangible collections and how to present them
– collecting as a social phenomenon.
– collections display in museum (e.g. how to modernize them)
Opuscula Musealia is an open journal that publishes high-quality articles preferably in English, Polish (German and French are also possible) in all areas of:
Deadline: March 31st 2019
Submit your manuscript(s) to Maria Natalia Gajek, curator and editorial secretary: opuscula.musealia@uj.edu.pl
Read more here.
Jagiellonian University Museum Collegium Maius