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One of the hosts of UMAC 2017!
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One of the hosts of UMAC 2017!
Continue reading → “Collection of the Month: Helsinki University Museum”
Final preparations at the Helsinki University Museum before UMAC 2017 starts next week.
Download the Program (PDF).
Next year, UMAC‘s annual conference will be held in partnership with the AAMG, Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (USA). We are delighted to organise the conference with them, and also to be coming back to the USA after 15 years.
The date will be 21-24 June 2018, at the University of Miami.
We encourage members of either organization to join us and explore this year’s theme:
Audacious Ideas: University Museums and Collections as Change-Agents for a Better World
We live in a dangerous, often unstable, and environmentally compromised world. What can academic museums, galleries, and collections do to remedy this situation? If we are dedicated to teaching and training new generations of students, to serving increasingly diverse communities, how do we make a positive difference? How do we know we are making that difference? Let’s share great ideas and pressing concerns and learn and network with our global colleagues.
We’ll be posting our Call for Proposals in September. We’re looking for presenters to share with us exciting and unusual ways that their museums, galleries, and collections are serving as change-agents. We’re interested in proposals that address how you are adopting new roles and adapting old ones, welcoming new constituencies while keeping current visitors, and creating new paradigms that make our institutions more valued and critical partners in higher education and in building a more peaceful and healthy world.
We will invite proposals that address:
Stay tuned for more information soon!
Last August 14, some 400 artefacts belonging to the collections of the Bergen University Museum, in Norway, were stolen. If not recovered, this is an incredible loss of Norwegian and universal heritage.
The robbery has been reported in the news. During the night, several burglars climbed a scaffold, entered the storage on the 7th floor of the Museum, and raided the collection.
https://www.thelocal.no/20170814/high-value-objects-stolen-from-norway-museum
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1486633/400-viking-objects-stolen-norway-museum-heist/
UMAC has contacted the Bergen University Museum Director, Henrik von Achen. The focus is now on disseminating the information in case the artefacts appear on the market.
Pictures are available on the University of Bergen website and FB:
http://www.uib.no/aktuelt/109802/innbruddet-p%C3%A5-universitetsmuseet-i-bergen
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.716168091907676&type=1
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LANÇADA A CONVOCATÓRIA DAS BOLSAS IBERMUSEUS DE CAPACITAÇÃO 2017
O Programa Ibermuseus apresenta a convocatória das Bolsas Ibermuseus de Capacitação 2017.
Com esta ação, o Programa pretende promover a qualificação profissional das equipes de museus, além de estimular a circulação do conhecimento e facilitar o intercâmbio de conteúdos, experiências, práticas e conceitos entre os países da Comunidade Ibero-americana.
Con el fin de dar continuidad al diseño de acciones que se focalicen en el análisis crítico y reflexivo de producciones expresivas, simbólicas, comunicacionales y artísticas que se generan en la Universidad y en el entorno comunitario, la Universidad Nacional de Avellaneda lanza el Programa Dered Museo UNDAV, una iniciativa desde una perspectiva transversal, transdisciplinar e interinstitucional que propone acciones orientadas a la detección factores de identidad artística que están presentes en lo cotidiano.
En este sentido el Programa Dered Museo UNDAV busca fortalecer los vínculos de las sedes de la Universidad con sus barrios, desde acciones y producciones culturales que ensayen respuestas a las problemáticas particulares de cada comunidad, como así también poner en valor y difundir el patrimonio tangible e intangible relevado en las mismas y aportar a la generación de financiamientos extra institucionales a partir de la transferencia de productos y servicios originados en el marco del Programa.
A tal efecto, Dered Museo UNDAV ofrecerá un circuito de muestras a partir de convocatorias de participación abierta y gratuita dirigida a artistas de la comunidad UNDAV y la región sur en general, recorriendo trabajos realizados en los distintos lenguajes artísticos que podrá abarcar desde la producción textil, el dibujo, la pintura, el grabado, cerámica, escultura, instalaciones, producciones audiovisuales, multimedia, literarias, entre otras.
More info, please contact: Hugo Oscar Arámburu (coordinator of the Programme)
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The Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura, Germany, whose collections are at the Museum of the University of Tübingen, was also listed this weekend as World Heritage by UNESCO.
Read more (in German).
This means that 2017 is already a fantastic year for university heritage in Europe.
Many congratulations to this wonderful and well deserved recognition!
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee, presently meeting in Krakow, Poland, just announced that the Neustadt — the late 19th and early 20th century urban development of the city of Strasbourg, which includes at its very heart the University of Strasbourg (the University Palace depicted in the photo, but also the Astronomical Observatory, the Botanic Garden, the Zoology Museum and Jardin des Sciences, and several other buildings) — just entered the World Heritage List.
See more here.
UMAC is extremely glad and proud of these wonderful news and congratulates the city of Strasbourg, the University of Strasbourg, and all partners involved for this successful and entirely deserved recognition.