UMAC is delighted — and grateful — that ICOM-USA granted us a subsidy towards the organisation of our annual conference at the University of Miami, Florida.
Jointly organised with the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG), UMAC expects this annual conference to be its largest ever.
See more about UMAC-AAMG 2018 here.
跳龍門鄉土藝術博物舘
Jumping over the Dragon Gate Folk Art Museum
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Published by MAST and edited by Marcus Granato, Emanuela Sousa Ribeiro and Bruno Melo de Araújo, the new publication is titled Cadernos do Patrimônio da Ciência e Tecnologia: Instituições, trajetórias e valores and includes 13 texts in Portuguese, namely the Rio de Janeiro Charter on the Heritage of Science and Technology.
The whole volume can be downloaded here.
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.
Musée Théodore Monod d’Art Africain, Senegal!
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We are pleased to announce that the new issue of Museum International, dedicated to the ICOM 2016 General Conference theme ‘Museums and cultural landscapes’, has just been published. The printed version is now available. We have redefined the journal’s layout and design to be more aesthetically pleasing and readable, bringing out a more dynamic, vibrant whole.
Free access to the articles will be available to ICOM members for 30 days, through the Wiley Online Library platform: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/muse.2017.69.issue-1-2/issuetoc
Wiley offers a reduced subscription fee to all ICOM members. To subscribe, please visit the Museum International homepage at: http://ordering.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/subs.asp?ref=1468-0033&doi=10.1111/(ISSN)1468-0033
ICOM-ITC April 2018 workshop
The ICOM International Training Centre (ICOM-ITC) is announcing the organisation of its tenth training workshop that will be held from 9 to 17 April, 2018 in Beijing, China. ICOM, ICOM China and the Palace Museum are pleased to award travel grants to international participants attending the training workshop called Managing a Museum Today.
Please apply online: https://icom.formstack.com/forms/icom_itc_april_2018_application
The application forms should be filled out and the required documents should be sent before Midnight (CET) Wednesday 20 December, 2017.
Museo di Storia della Fisica, University of Padua, Italy!
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