Largely due to the partnership with, and commitment of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries, US, our latest annual conference at the University of Miami mobilised almost 400 participants from 23 countries.
UMAC is grateful to the AAMG and we hope to continue developing activities together in the near future!
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University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian
Museum of Education
Title: Museum Institutions of the Higher Education System of Western Ukraine on the Background of Word Trends.
Author: Svitlana Muravska
Lviv, 2018, 357 pp.
The timing couldn’t be better: on May 18, 2018, International Museum Day — theme: Hyperconnected Museums — the Anthropology Museum of the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil, launched its museum app.
Download it here and have fun! Congratulations!
See more details here. Until 10 June.
The three nominees for the UMAC Award 2018 have just been announced. This year we have fantastic projects from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and Perm University (Russia).
Read more about them here.
On April 11th, the University Museums Training Week Shanghai 2018 (UMTWS 2018), co-organized by University Museums and Collections (UMAC) of International Council of Museums (ICOM), National Educational Alliance of University and College Museum (NEAUCM), Shanghai Educational Alliance of University and College Museums (SEAUCM), and Qian Xuesen Library & Museum of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (QLM-SJTU), was officially opened at Qian Xuesen Library & Museum. The opening ceremony ended up with an extremely vibrant and heated panel discussion themed on “University Museums: Striving towards Excellence”. The experts of university museums from various countries delved into in-depth dialogues in the discussion. Fresh perspectives are presented and debated for the future development of university museums in China.
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Qian Xuesen Library and Museum
Continue reading → “COLLECTION OF THE MONTH: Qian Xuesen Library and Museum, Shanghai”
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.
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.
