Conference Proceedings

 

 

UMAC has published its annual conference proceedings since its creation in 2001. Since 2008, most proceedings have been published in the dedicated journal UMACJ, presently under evaluation. Editor UMACJ: Vice-Chair Andrew Simpson Since 2019, UMACJ has also been published in Chinese, thanks to an agreement made with Shanghai University Museum. Read UMACJ in Chinese here.

UMAC’s Book of Abstracts  Kyoto 2019

University Museums and Collections Journal 11, No. 1, 2019 (complete issue, 163 pp, 2.3 M)
UMACJ 11.1 CHINESE Edition

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UMAC’s Proceedings  Miami 2018

 University Museums and Collections Journal 11, N. 2, 2019 (complete issue, 92 pp, 1.3 M).
UMACJ 11.2 CHINESE Edition

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UMAC’s Proceedings  Finland 2017 

University Museums and Collections Journal 10, 2018 (complete issue, 125 pp, 4 M).

UMACJ 10 CHINESE Edition

Table of Contents

Introduction: Global issues for university museums

Panu Nykänen, Barbara Rothermel, Andrew Simpson

First steps in global advocacy: Some perspectives on the formation of UMAC, an international committee of ICOM

Panu Nykänen

UMAC Proceedings Helsinki & Jyväskylä, Finland: Global Issues in University Museums and Collections — Objects, Ideas, People

  Human remains, museum space and the ‘poetics of exhibiting’

Kali Tzortzi

A significance study of the University of Canberra’s geological collection

Andrew Simpson, Hakim Abdul Rahim

Artefact or art? Perceiving objects via object-viewing, object-handling, and virtual reality


Rebecca Sweetman, Alison Hadfield, with contributions by Sophia Mirashrafi, Hannah Sycamore

Art engagement and the college curriculum: factors and strategies for success in collection-based teaching

Liliana Milkova

Museum of Education: Challenges and successes in a Greek University Museum

Magdalini Ntinou, Evgenia Vafeiadou

University museum as a multifunction platform: A preliminary proposal of initiator-activity-function theory

Jeng-Horng Chen

University of Tartu medical records

Kaija-Liisa Koovit, Tiina Vint

Problems and challenges with exhibiting donated mummies

Jaanika Anderson

A collection care program for/with school students: Broadening stakeholder engagement

Patricia H. J. Huang

Engaging museums: Developing collection-centred activities for visitor involvement in the universities of Wuhan, China

Luwei Fan, Wan Ni, Hao Jiang

University collections: Recent developments in Albania

Dorina Xheraj-Subashi

 

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UMAC’s Proceedings  Milan 2016 

University Museums and Collections Journal 9, 2017 (complete issue, 84 pp, 3.6 M).
 UMACJ 9 CHINESE Edition

 

Table of Contents

Introduction: Re-evaluating the discourse on university museums

Marta C. Lourenço, Barbara Rothermel, Andrew Simpson

UMAC Proceedings Milan: Museums and Cultural Landscapes

 University cultural heritage of Cuba: A methodology to preserve and promote the collections and landscape of CUJAE university campus at Havana

Carina Marrero Leivas

University collections: An important part of the German cultural landscape

Cornelia Weber, Martin Stricker

University Museums Reflecting the Large Picture: A Case Study of the Museum of East China Normal University


Ying Hu

The role of university museums in the formation of new cultural layers: The case of the Golden Horn, Istanbul


Nurten Özdemir, Hikmet Sivri Gokmen

The role of the Science and Technology Museum in the Development of Patras University cultural landscape


Penelope Theologi-Gouti, Evangelos Vitoratos

Breathing new life into dormant academic heritage in Spanish universities and secondary schools

Isabel García, Luis Mayo, María José Gómez

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Arts et Métiers: Polysémie et dynamique d’une collection

Marie-Sophie Corcy, Lionel Dufaux, Dominique Ferriot

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UMAC’s Proceedings  Manila 2015 

University Museums and Collections Journal 8, 2016
Ed. by Nathalie Nyst, Barbara Rothermel, Peter Stanbury.

 UMACJ 8 CHINESE Edition (complete issue, 41 pp, 2.2 M, published 2019 with the support of Shanghai University Museum).

UMAC’s and CECA’s common Proceedings Alexandria 2014

Joint CECA-UMAC conference 2014
Ed. by Nicole Gesche and Mona Hagag.

UMAC’s Proceedings Rio 2013 and Proceedings of the conference ‘Positioning academic heritage’, Ghent, November 2013

University Museums and Collections Journal 7, 2014
Ed. by Nathalie Nyst, Barbara Rothermel, Peter Stanbury.

UMAC’s Proceedings Singapore 2012

University Museums and Collections Journal 6, 2013
Ed. by Nathalie Nyst, Peter Stanbury, Cornelia Weber.

UMAC’s Proceedings Lisbon 2011

University Museums and Collections Journal 5, 2012
Ed. by Nathalie Nyst, Peter Stanbury, Cornelia Weber.

UMAC’s Proceedings Shanghai 2010

University Museums and Collections Journal 4, 2011
Ed. by Nathalie Nyst, Peter Stanbury, Cornelia Weber.

UMAC’s Proceedings Berkeley 2009

University Museums and Collections Journal 3, 2010
Ed. by Sally MacDonald, Nathalie Nyst, Cornelia Weber.

UMAC’s Proceedings Manchester 2008

University Museums and Collections Journal 2, 2009
Ed. by Sally MacDonald, Nathalie Nyst, Cornelia Weber.

UMAC’s Proceedings Vienna 2007

University Museums and Collections Journal 1, 2008
Ed. by Sally MacDonald, Nathalie Nyst, Cornelia Weber.

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UMAC’s Proceedings Mexico City 2006

Nuevas rutas para los Museos Universitarios, 6º Congreso Internacional de Museos Universitarios / New Roads for University Museums, 6th International Congress for University Museums.
México 2008.

Proceedings Seoul 2004 & Uppsala 2005

Selected papers of the fourth and fifth Conference of UMAC are published in Opuscula Musealia XV, 2006.
Ed. by Stanislaw Waltos. Krakow 2006.

UMAC’s Proceedings Oklahoma 2003

Engaging the Community.
Ed. by Peter Tirrell. Norman, Oklahoma 2005.

UMAC’s Proceedings Sydney & Canberra 2002

Exposing and Exploiting the Distinct Character of University Museums and Collections.
Museologia 3, 2003.

UMAC’s Proceedings Barcelona 2001

Intensifying Support for and Increasing Audiences in University Museums and Collections.
Museologia 2, 2002.