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19 December
- Paper
- the Soleil (Canada): Cyril Simard: promoting the economic sovereignty
of craftsmen
Occasion: finalist to the Price expansion outside Quebec 2008
of the Chamber of Commerce of Quebec.
Cyril Simard carried out the intelligent development of the traditional
works of art of a lifetime. For that reason it would surely cause
the admiration of his intellectual guides. This work is the international
Society of network ÉCONOMUSÉE (SIRE), created in
1992, which groups 33 companies of craftsmen in agro-alimentary
art trades and in thirteen regions of Quebec, as well as 17 in
the Atlantic Provinces. The SIRE, whose social address is in Quebec,
has the mission to conserve, develop and put into value traditional
trades and technical knowledge. In sum, it is a type of Chamber
of Commerce for craftsmen. Cyril Simard endorses the analogy!
Generating a volume of business of $33 million, the companies
of the network attracted last year more than 750,000 visitors.
- Exhibition:
Treasures of wrecks
From September 21 2008 to September 7 2009. Regional museum of
prehistory of Menton (France). Under the High Sponsorship of H.R.H.
Prince Albert 2nd of Monaco
The City of Menton proposes the public to discover the fascinating
world of wrecks thanks to the exhibition “Treasures of wrecks
- the Sea routes of the Mediterranean”, that takes place
for one year in the Museum of Regional Prehistory. The winds and
tides of the Mare Nostrum allowed men to exchange their cultures.
From the Ancient times, Etruscan, Greek and Roman drew up, on
their intrepid ships, the first sea routes of the Mediterranean.
- Exhibition:
The polar ice for future generations
From February 21, 2008. Oceanographic museum of Monaco. With
the support of the Foundation Prince Albert II of Monaco.
Within the framework of the 4th International Polar Year,
this exhibition is a true manifesto. It submerged visitors in
the center of the polar world, its wealth and its fragility, describing
a threatened world and raises the true question: what will remain
of the Planet for the future generations?
18 December
- Various
Papers and Presentation from Deakin University (Australia)
- Andrea Witcomb ( 2008), Keynote presentation,
"What happens when museums become part of the tourism landscape?
Some thoughts on the quest for experience, INTERCOM 2008, Museums,
Tourism, visitor experience, 25-28 November 2008, Rotorua, New
Zealand.
- Andrea Witcomb ( 2008), The role of art objects
in the process of Memorialisation: The Jewish Holocaust Museum
in Melbourne, Australia. Paper presented at the Interrogating
Trauma: Arts
- Linda Young ( 2008), participated in a panel
presentation on 21 Novat the State Library on the theme 'Presenting
the City in the Museum', as part of the History Council of Victoria
(Australia) monthly seminars.
17 December
- World’s
first underwater museum planned for Egypt
Mention underwater archeological treasures and most people will
think of shipwrecks full of chests of gold from far corners of
the earth. However, the United Nations Educational Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), together with the Egyptian
government, is now planning to show the world that underwater
archeology can be much more, by building the world’s first
underwater museum to show the rich cultural and historical heritage
that can be found under the Bay of Alexandria in northern Egypt.
The museum will be built by the government of Egypt, while UNESCO
has established an International Scientific Advisory Committee
to help lay the groundwork. The committee is expected to start
preparatory work this month.
- "Tutankhamun:
The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs" makes US debut November
15
A new National Geographic exhibition featuring more than 130 ancient
Egyptian treasures, premieres tomorrow at the Atlanta Civic Center,
where it will be on view through May 25, 2009. The exhibition,
which will open with more than 100,000 tickets sold, features
artifacts from the tomb of the celebrated pharaoh King Tutankhamun
and other ancient sites representing 2,000 years of ancient Egyptian
history. The exhibition in Atlanta is developed in partnership
with the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University.
5 December
- Journée
spéciale : Claude Lévi-Strauss a 100 ans
journée spéciale le vendredi 28 novembre 2008musée
en accès libre de 11 heures à 21 heures.
Le musée du quai Branly rend hommage à Claude Lévi-Strauss
en lui consacrant une journée exceptionnelle, à
l’occasion du centenaire de sa naissance.
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Latest
editions of the review Museum International
ISSN: 2008, 92-3-1MU023-9
In recent years, languages have come to be recognized as fundamental
to cultural diversity.
The present issue of Museum International deals in its first part
with the legal and ethical principles that define and account for
the importance of linguistic diversity in UNESCO’s cultural
mission. The appeal made to governments to formulate policies allowing
communities to use their first or mother language is illustrated here
by articles on the European Charter of Regional or Minority Languages,
the Guaraní language and African languages. That the use of
the vernacular is essential not only for ‘being’ oneself,
but also for fully participating in communal life is underlined in
the second part of this issue, which addresses the role of linguistic
diversity in the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage. Recent
or planned initiatives evoked in this regard include the ‘Museum
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Online
Publication - Climate change and museum collections: transcript of
event
A full transcript of the round table discussion Climate change and
museum collections is now available for download here
(PDF; 2.5MB). The discussion was the first event in IIC’s new
initiative, Dialogues for the New Century: roundtable discussions
on the conservation of cultural heritage in a changing world. It was
held in London during the 2008 IIC London Congress and attracted a
large audience of conservators and related professionals, including
many delegates from the Congress.. A panel of four expert speakers
explored the effects that global climate change is having on cultural
heritage, and discussed how we can adapt to meet the coming challenges. |
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