International Council of Museums Committee for University Museums and Collections

AAMG Annual Conference 2019
2019-06-27 - 2019-06-30 | Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States

International Seminar Heritage on Fire: Who's next?
2019-06-26 - 2019-06-28 | Multiple venues (see program), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Heritage on fire: Who’s next?
Fire risk management for cultural heritage
International seminar | Rio de Janeiro
26-28 June 2019

Fire is a major hazard affecting cultural heritage assets around the world. Although it may seem a ‘rare event’ from a single institution’s perspective, large fires can become routine when considering the total heritage of a nation. Furthermore, their impact is typically catastrophic, causing total or almost total loss in the affected cultural property. Recent examples include the Glasgow School of Arts (United Kingdom, 2014 and 2018), the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (Russian Federation, 2015), Mzuzu University Library (Malawi, 2015), India’s National Museum of Natural History (2016), New York’s Saint Sava Cathedral (United States of America, 2016), Jakarta’s Maritime Museum (Indonesia, 2018), and Brazil’s National Museum (2018).

The majority of fires affecting heritage institutions have internal causes, and can be avoided or greatly reduced through proper maintenance and safety procedures. In order to prevent fire disasters, emergency preparedness is essential but it must not be the only strategy. There is a clear need to promote more effective legislation and policies, to stimulate the use of new fire safety technologies, and help create a fire prevention culture in heritage organizations.

The seminar will address these pressing issues, underlining the key role that decision makers must play in preventing disaster fires. Fire statistics and their implications for effective decision-making, experiences from different countries and contexts in managing fire risks, and state-of-the-art fire safety measures for application in cultural heritage will be discussed. Contributions will be sought from a diverse range of fields and disciplines, including heritage managers and authorities, cultural first-aiders, conservators, fire legislation specialists, fire engineers, fire chiefs, heritage risk assessors, and insurance experts. A visit to Brazil’s National Museum will be organized to provide a first-hand view of the ongoing actions to re-establish its prominent role as a heritage and research institution in the country and internationally.

A specialist forum will take place at the end of the seminar to set forth meaningful recommendations concerning fire risk reduction in cultural heritage. This will provide a concrete output to support policy changes and ensure wide dissemination of results.

Target audience: heritage authorities, heritage managers, national fire protection agencies, museum directors, museum designers, heritage management educators, etc.
Program in ENGLISH and PORTUGUESE
Registration
Contact: seminario@museus.gov.br
SUPPORTED BY UMAC.

Universeum Network Meeting 2019
2019-06-18 - 2019-06-21
In 2019, the UNIVERSEUM Network Meeting will be hosted by the Mendel Museum of Masaryk University in Brno, together with the Charles University in Prague and the University of Bratislava in Slovakia.

International Museum Day 2019
2019-05-18
Read more here.

The Museum in Evolution: Towards a New Definition
2019-05-08 | Università degli Studi di Milano, Sala di Rappresentanza, Via Festa del Perdono 7, Milan, Italy
A day of reflection on the implications of ICOM’s museum definition on university museums in the context of the cultural and social ‘third mission’ of universities.
Organised by the University of Milan and ICOM-Italia, with representatives from the ICOM Executive Council, ICOM-Italia, ICOFOM, UMAC, CRUI (Council of Italian University Rectors), and the Italian cultural and higher education sectors.
Program

11th Symposium of Chinese Science Museums
2019-04-19 | China Science and Technology Museum (CSTM), Beijing, China
The 11th Symposium of Chinese Science Museums will be dedicated to the theme “Science & Technology Collections – Collection, Research, and Communication”.
Organised by: China Association for Science and Technology – Research Center of Science Communication and Popularization (CAST-RCSCP) of Tsinghua University, China Science and Technology Museum (CSTM), and Journal of Natural Science Museum Research, and supported by Chinese Museums Association (CMA), Chinese Association of Natural Science Museums (CANSM), Scientific Instrument Commission (SIC).
Announcement in English.
Announcement in Chinese.

COLLOQUIUM-Workshops on Museum Documentation
2019-04-09 - 2019-04-12 | Universum, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico

The Museum for all people: Art, Accessibility and Social Inclusion
2019-04-02 - 2019-04-05 | Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
The Museum for all people: Art, Accessibility and Social Inclusion
The MUSACCES Consortium (UCM-UNED-UAM) in the frame of its I+D activities in a more inclusive museology, invites the sienctific community to submit contributions, as oral communications or posters, to the International Conference “The Museum for all people: Art, Accessibility and Social Inclusion” which will be held in Madrid between 2nd-5th April 2017. It aims to create a space for dialogue and interdisciplinary meeting between museum managers, teachers, researchers, artists, students and other professionals from the world of culture to discuss the extension of the art museum to all people, regardless of its diversity.
Keynote Speakers: Hans-Martin Hinz (ex president, ICOM), Charles Robert Saumarez Smith (ex director, National Gallery), James Bradburne (Director, Pinacoteca di Breda), Maria Gravari-Barbas (UNESCO Heritage), Nicole Gesché-Koning (Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles / ICOM), Horst Bredekamp (Humboldt University of Berlin), José Manuel Cruz Valdovinos (UCM), Antonella Poce (Università Roma Tre), Tim Coughlan (Open University), Alice Semedo (Universidade do Porto), Lola Álvarez (Universidad de Granada), Eloísa Pérez Santos (UCM y Ministerio de Cultura), Encarna Lago (Red de Museos de Lugo), Hugues Dreysse (Université de Strasbourg), Juan M. Monterroso (USC), Federico Castro and Victoria Díaz (UC3M).
CALL FOR PAPERS
Thematic Scopes: 1. Pluralism in art. Aesthetic and sensory perceptions. / 2. Cultural heritage at everyone’s reach. / 3. Museums as spaces for knowledge . / 4. Museums and 21st century audiences . / 5. Museums and universities . / 6. Museums as spaces for inclusive innovation and technology  / 7. Accesibility beyond the museum . / 8. Outstanding projects and practices in museology accessibility or social inclusion (poster).
The deadline for submitting papers is 15h February 2019. General participation rules and the communication submitting form may be found here.
Further information or any question can be sent to the following address: museumforall@musacces.es

Conference 'Researcher Meets Curator'
2019-03-22 | University of Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands
Conference on the trends in scientist biographies and its consequences for curators, archivists and researchers of university and scientific collections.
Organized by the Dutch Foundation for Academic Heritage (SAE), Maastricht University, and the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (Royal Net. Acad. Sc).

De l'ombre à la lumière
2019-02-15 | Université Libre de Bruxelles, 44, Avenue Jeanne, Bruxelles, Belgium
Colloque
Pour une politique de gestion des colletions colloniales de restes humains dans les universités

See programme here.

I SEMINARIO INTERNACIONAL DE EXTENSIÓN UNIVERSITARIA EN LA FORMACIÓN DE LOS ESTUDIANTES DE CIENCIAS TECNICAS EN EL SIGLO XXI
2018-11-26 - 2018-11-30 | Universidad Tecnológica de la Habana, José Antonio Echeverría, Cujae, La Habana, Cuba
Promoción cultural, globalización y gestión universitaria.

Organizado por la Vicerrectoría de Extensión Universitaria de la Universidad Tecnológica de la Habana, José Antonio Echeverría, Cujae.
Esta edición en el marco de la 19 Convención de la Cujae ratifica al ámbito académico y la vía expedita que representa el proceso extensionista para el diálogo reflexivo y franco, la interactividad y la creatividad. El seminario se propone como espacio de encuentro y concertación de proyectos, redes y nuevos compromisos donde se analizan y estudian soluciones a los problemas más apremiantes de la Sociedad, al tiempo que se tributa al futuro de nuestros países.
Se realizará entre el 26 y 30 de noviembre del 2018.
Read more (in Spanish).
Abstract submission: English, Spanish.

Encuentro Internacional ORGANISMOS MUSEOLOGICOS HIPERCONECTADOS
2018-11-08 - 2018-11-11 | ITAIPU Binacional y el MUSEO de ITAIPU – Tierra Guaraní, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
Call for papers and more information: Segunda circular

I Encontro das Coleções Didáticas e Científicas da UFOPA
2018-11-01 | Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarém, Pará, Brazil
As coleções da Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (UFOPA), em Santarém na Amazônia Brasileira, são representativas da diversidade arqueológica, histórica e natural do Baixo Amazonas, tornando-se referências internacionais.
De forma à trazer a discussão sobre a relação universidade e coleções e seus mecanismos de proteção, UFOPA, Rede Brasileira de Coleções e Museus Universitários e Comitê Internacional para Coleções e Museus Universitários – Conselho Internacional de Museus, promovem este I Encontro.

Programação:
-Apresentação do histórico, importância, conjuntura e possibilidades das coleções e museus universitários (Thomaz Xavier Carneiro, UFPA)
-Apresentações das coleções da UFOPA (docentes responsáveis)
-Proposta de criação de Política Institucional de coleções UFOPA (Profª Thaís Almeida)
-Debate e proposições finais.

ICOFOM Annual Symposium in Tehran, October 15-19, 2018
2018-10-15 - 2018-10-19 | Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of
UMAC Board member Fatemeh Ahmadi announces the
ICOFOM 41st Annual Symposium on the theme “Museology and the Sacred.” This symposium will take place in Tehran, Iran, from 15th to 19th October 2018 (Iranian calendar : 22-27 Mehr 1397).
Please look at this site for more information:
http://network.icom.museum/icofom/meetings/next-conference/

V Forum Brasileiro de Museus Universitários
2018-10-09 - 2018-10-11 | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

P-MUS Workshop
2018-10-08 | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
The P-MUS consortium — UMAC, ICTOP, AAMG and Universeum – will organise a Project Workshop at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 8 October 2018.
Eco Station, UFMG, Belo Horizonte.
The Workshop will have two parts. The first part will be restricted to P-MUS project members. The second part will not only be public but also broadcasted live.
It will include a keynote address by Tereza Scheiner (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Unirio) and a roundtable to debate P-MUS results.
See preliminary programme.
The Workshop is supported by the Rede de Museus e Espaços de Ciências e Cultura, UFMG.
P-MUS is supported by ICOM Special Projects. Learn more.

6th UIA Associations Round Table Asia-Pacific
2018-09-26 - 2018-09-27 | Kuala Lumpur Convention Center, Malaysia
For over 100 years the UIA has been working to promote and facilitate the work of international associations.
The UIA Associations Round Table is an opportunity to learn through networking and through practice:

meet representatives of other international associations and share experience and knowledge
gain practical skills and tools to help you do your work better

This year the Round Table Asia-Pacific will take place Wednesday 26 and Thursday 27 September in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Congreso Sudamericano de Museos Universitarios
2018-09-13 - 2018-09-14 | Centro Cultural R. R. Rojas, Av. Corrientes 2038, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Programa/Program

Junctions – University collections and their networks
2018-09-13 - 2018-09-15
© Thomas Hartmann/JGU
10th German Conference of University Collections
7th Annual Meeting of the German Society for University Collections
Mainz University, Germany
During the 18th century university collections developed as “central meeting places” (Dominik Collet) and until now they don’t build enclosed rooms but are gathering around people as well as objects and furthermore have the function of a “contact zone” (James Clifford). Throughout the complex ways of their provenance, their changing uses and their connections to different protagonists they represent junctions of extended networks.
This year’s Conference, organized by Mainz University in cooperation with the German Society for University Collections and addressed to curators of university and museum collections and scientists working with objects, focusses on the networks of collections and the different perspectives on their objects. It will be discussed which potential follows from that for the cooperation with other disciplines, with partners within and out of universities, on regional, national and international level.
Note: the Conference language is German.
See Program.
Read more.

UMG Conference 2018 – Foreign Exchange?
2018-07-03 | Museum of Zoology, Cambridge University, Downing Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom
2018 Conference of the University Museums Group, UK
Foreign exchange? University museums and international engagement
University museum collections originate from many countries. Over decades and in some cases centuries, they were created and curated through scientific fieldwork and collecting that ranged worldwide. In the present, those interested in studying collections and in borrowing art works and specimens for analysis and exhibition represent, like our students, many nations. International engagement is anything but foreign to us. Read more.

UK University Museums Group Conference
2018-07-03 | Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
The annual conference of the UK University Museums Group takes place at the University of Cambridge on 3 July. It is a single-day event, including visits to both the (newly renovated) Zoology Museum and Kettle’s Yard (the famous modern and contemporary art space) at the University.
Theme: ‘Foreign exchange?’
Read more here.
Registrations here.

XII Jornadas sobre Patrimonio de Institutos Históricos
2018-07-02 - 2018-07-05 | IES San Isidro & IES Isabel la Católica, Madrid, Spain
Las jornadas están organizadas por el IES San Isidro y el IES Isabel la Católica, y a ella asistirán los Institutos y profesores que se preocupan en la conservación del patrimonio y la Historia de sus Institutos. Ambos institutos son centros de educación de secundaria históricos y socios y fundadores de la Asociación Nacional de Defensa del Patrimonio de los Institutos Históricos.

Algunos de los objetivos de las XII jornadas son los siguientes:
– Visibilizar la riqueza patrimonial que conservan los Institutos históricos de enseñanza secundaria.
– Intercambiar las experiencias y actividades sobre el patrimonio realizadas en los Institutos.
– Difundir el patrimonio educativo de los centros de enseñanza en España y en Europa

Estos objetivos son compartidos por el año europeo del patrimonio cultural, y a las jornadas asistirán organizaciones europeas que trabajan conservando el patrimonio educativo en sus respectivos paises, las jornadas contaran con el sello del año europeo del patrimonio cultural.
More info.

18th UMAC Annual Conference
2018-06-21 - 2018-06-24 | University of Miami, Miami, United States
Audacious Ideas: University Museums and Collections as Change-Agents for a Better World
Joint Annual Conference UMAC-AAMG

See Programme here.

Universeum Meeting
2018-06-13 - 2018-06-15
The next universeum annual meeting will be held in Glasgow June 13th to 15th, 2018.
Training workshop sessions will be organized for June 11th-12th and post-conference visits to other university museums in the rest of Scotland on June 16th-17th.
More information at http://universeum.it

colecciones y museos universitarios hiperconectados
2018-05-17 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Mexico_City)

1er Encuentro Nacional de Museos Universitarios Mexico
2018-04-18 - 2018-04-21 | Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, Mexico
Supported by:

You shall be heard!? a conference about how (not) to share personal narratives
2018-04-12 - 2018-04-13 | Vest Agder Museum, Kristiansand, Norway
The conference aims to explore how museums can contribute to a society where multiple voices are heard, multiple perspectives are revealed and more people are – and feel – included and recognized. International speakers will reflect on political changes in Europe and the consequences for museums. In addition, psychologists will shed light on how shame and openness are related to identity development, and we shall learn more the status of knowledge and ways to improve our work with local societies and difficult issues.
Programme.

University Museum Training Week Shanghai 2018
2018-04-11 - 2018-04-20 | Qian Xuesen Library and Museum, Shanghai, China
Twenty-eight university museum professionals from mainland China and one from Hong-Kong will participate in the University Museum Training Week Shanghai UMTWS 2018, 11-20 April, organized by UMAC-ICOM in partnership with the Qian Xuesen Library and Museum, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
The theme of UMTWS 2018 will be GOALS AND PRIORITIZATION: STRATEGIC PLANING IN UNIVERSITY MUSEUMS.
Download the programme here.

SEMINAR ICOM NORWAY Towards new relations between the museum and society - and Sami perspectives
2018-04-11 | Vest Agder Museum, Kristiansand, Norway
Speakers from the Nordic countries will talk about own experiences while working with local societies and/or sensitive issues.
Programme.

2018 CAUMAC - ANU Symposium
2018-04-06 | Australian National University
Reframing university collections – research infrastructure
