participatory museum workshop

On Saturday September 24 at UMAss Amherst, Nina Simon of The Participatory Museum and Museum 2.o will lead a workshop presenting design techniques, international examples, and opportunities for Museum 2.0-cultural institutions that incorporate user participation into their work. Participants will be invited to experiment with techniques for designing collaborative processes whose outputs are valuable not only to participants but to staff and non-participating visitors as well. We will discuss the unique and specific value that participatory techniques can bring to cultural institutions, as well as the limitations and challenges to established practice.

The workshop (pre-registration required, $40, registration welcome until spaces are filled) is part of the landmark conference Public History 2036: The Next 25 Years. For information and registration materials, go to

http://www.umass.edu/history/documents/PublicHistory2036.pdf

Fwd: Attend For The Record: Academic Symposium

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For The Record: Academic Symposium Where: Dane St. Church 10 Dane St. Beverly, MA 01915 Driving Directions When: Friday September 30, 2011 at 10:00 AM EDT -to- Saturday October 1, 2011 at 6:30 PM EDT Add to my calendar   Dear Steven,   You're invited to attend Montserrat College of Art's first academic symposium in conjunction with the exhibition For the Record. It is a two-day event with a variety of speakers from across the country. Key note speaker is critic and author Robert Storr. Other participants are artist James O'Neil, author Susanne Slavick, photographer Nina Berman, culture scholar Steven Dubin, and social historian Gordon Arnold.    Included is a screening of Sebastian Junger's documentary film Restrepo. Complete Conference schedule   The event is free, but requires registration. Register Now! I can't make it Thank you for your attention and response, and I look forward to seeing you at the symposium.   Sincerely,   Leonie Bradbury, Director and Curator Montserrat College of Art Galleries leonie.bradbury@montserrat.edu 978-867-9623

A Better World By Design Conference (Sept 30-Oct 2, 2011)

http://www.abetterworldbydesign.com/

AACU Network for Academic Renewal Conference: Arts & Humanities: Toward a Flourishing State? November 3-5, 2011

AACU Network for Academic Renewal Conference:
Arts & Humanities: Toward a Flourishing State?
November 3-5, 2011
Providence, Rhode Island
Register by September 9 for best conference rates

Details at http://bit.ly/oMwkbz

Arts & Humanities: Toward a Flourishing State? will explore current
realities and possible futures of the arts and humanities. The conference
will situate the arts and humanities both in relation to each other and
within the broader context of other disciplines and fields, within liberal
education as a whole. Addressing big questions about the future of the
United States as a democracy, the conference will emphasize the vitality and
importance of the arts and humanities and ask how that vitality might be
sustained and how the arts and humanities might evolve in the future.

Campus educators, administrators, students, and community partners are
invited to join with colleagues to consider anew the many ways in which the
arts and humanities contribute to and reflect the history and culture of our
nation and our connections to a vibrant global society.

At a moment fraught with division along political, cultural, and economic
lines, the conference intends both to explore difficult questions and to
entertain hope.

Below are conference highlights:

What the Arts and Humanities Can Teach Us about the American Citizenry and
Democracy of the Future
Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita,
Princeton University

Valuing the Arts and Humanities in a Changing World: The Case to Be Made
Robert J. Thompson, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke
University; and Raymond Tymas-Jones, Dean, College of Fine Arts, University
of Utah and President of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans

Luncheon, Posters, and Discussion (separate registration and fee required)
Community-Based Arts Organizations: Where Students, Mentors, Dreams, and
Talents Converge
The Providence community is home to a rich arts culture supported and
advanced by community-based arts organizations. Join with students, mentors,
professors, and community leaders from a range of community-based arts
organizations to learn how they are collaborating and providing learning
environments for underserved youth.
Organizations include: New Urban Arts; Community Music Works; Youth in
Action; AS220; and Providence After School Alliance

Participatory Democracy and Reinvigorating the Commons
Kevin Bott, Associate Director, Imagining America; Adam Bush, Founding
Director of Curriculum of College Unbound; Dana Edell, Co-founder and
Executive Director, viBe Theater Experience; and Dennis Littky, Co-founder
and Co-director, Big Picture Learning and the Met Center in Providence

Giving Voice to the Future: Students Take the Mic
Facilitators: Ande Diaz, Associate Dean of Students, Roger Williams
University; and Rebecca M. Townsend, Assistant Professor of Communication,
Manchester Community College
Students: Jason Furbish, Business, Massachusetts Bay Community College;
Ellen Gianakis, English and Linguistics, Montclair State University; and
Jake Monaghan, Philosophy, University of Rhode Island

Thanks,

Rahma Osman
Program Assistant

Sustaining Heritage, Sustaining Communities: Museums and Historic Preservation in the 21st Century, 9/30/2011 (Boston, MA)

For registration:
http://nicholshousemuseum.org/symposium_2011.php

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of its founding, the Nichols House Museum is pleased to present the symposium "Sustaining Heritage, Sustaining Communities: Museums and Historic Preservation in the 21st Century." On September 30, 2011, five speakers from Europe and the United States will come together to share experiences from their museums and heritage sites that have showcased, revived, and sustained their respective communities. Through promoting cross-cultural understanding in Honduras; reinventing uses for historic British buildings; preserving and presenting a 17th century church in Amsterdam; conserving a national landmark in Chicago for social and cultural inclusivity; and boosting heritage tourism in Jamaica, each case study demonstrates the power sustainability has on a community's heritage and economy. Please join us for this full day event.

Public History 2036, the Next 25 Years, Sept. 23-24, 2011 (UMass Amherst)

Visit:
http://www.umass.edu/history/documents/PublicHistory2036.pdf

For conference information and registration.

Hacking the Museum- November 16-19, 2011 (Atlanta, GA)

Atlanta, GA, 39th annual Musuem Computer Network Conference:
http://mcn.edu/mcn-2011-atlanta

Free un-conference: http://mcn2011.thatcamp.org/about/

The annual Museum Computer Network (MCN) conference brings together a community of museum professionals interested in using technology to improve their organizations and enhance the visitor experience. It is not a conference purely for technologists - it's for anyone who wants to explore exciting opportunities, and tackle the unique challenges, associated with using technology in museums. This year's theme emphasizes the growing effort among our community to encourage a culture of innovation, agility and collaboration in their organizations. We know that making technology work for museums requires a pan-organizational approach and we want to help spread the latest knowledge and best practice to leaders, technologists, educators, curators, archivists, marketers and others so teams can work more effectively together. Whether you are a seasoned technology professional, high-level manager, or just want to be more familiar with industry trends, the MCN 2011 conference program has something for everyone. The conference will not only broaden your skills and your perspective on museum technology, it is also the perfect place to meet leaders in the field and join a generous community willing to help you get to that next step.

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS:

Keynote Speaker: Kevin Slavin co-founder of Area/Code
Workshops & Panel Sessions
THATCamp Un-conference (free)
Special Interest Group (SIG) Meetings
Culture Hack Day, Coding and Arduino for Beginners
Two days on technology for access & conservation

TOPICS:
Collaboration | Community | Innovation | Learning from Libraries, Archives and others | Conservation | Agility | Access | Digital Asset Management | Social Media | Mobile | Transparency | Gaming | Augmented Reality | E-books | Linked Data | Tools and Best Practice | and More

History, memory, performance

In April 2012 Carleton University's Carleton Centre for Public History
and the University of Ottawa's Department of Theatre Studies will be
co-hosting a conference: History, Memory and Performance. The call for
papers and submission form can be found at:
http://historymemoryperfomanceottawa.wordpress.com/

Preservation in New England in the 21st Century

http://www.historicnewengland.org/events-programs/looking-forward-symposium
Roger Williams University, October 1, 2011

Fwd: Museum Newsletter, August 2011

Fifth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum  Find Out More >

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Fifth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum www.Museum-Conference.com Inclusive Museum Conference 2-5 August 2012 University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados Plenary Speakers Lonnie G. Bunch, III, Historian, author, curator and educator, Founding director of the Smithsonian s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC, USA Alissandra Cummins, Immediate Past President of ICOM; Director, Barbados Museums and Historical Society, Barbados Call for Papers If you intend to present a paper at the conference, your participation begins by submitting a paper proposal. More information on proposals, presentation types, and other options available here. If your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the conference. Registration Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal. Conference delegates who do not intend to present may register at any time. 2012 Museum Conference registration options. Themes Theme 1: Objects of Concern Theme 2: Interrogating The Collection Theme 3: Museums as Knowledge Makers and Custodians Theme 4: Pedagogy of the Museum Theme 5: The Virtual Museum Theme 6: Museum Business

Community News

One Math Museum, Many Variables By Kenneth Chang from The New York Times For everyone who finds mathematics incomprehensible, boring, pointless, or all of the above, Glen Whitney wants to prove you wrong. He believes that tens of thousands of visitors will flock to his Museum of Mathematics, to open in Manhattan next year, and leave invigorated about geometry, numbers and many more mathematical notions. We want to expose the breadth and the beauty of mathematics, said Mr. Whitney, a former math professor who parlayed his quantitative skills into a job at a Long Island hedge fund. He quit in late 2008 with connections to deep pockets and a quest to make math fun and cool. To Read More… Koreans Celebrate Return of Looted Books by France Image Courtesy of the AP From The Korea Times South Korea on Saturday celebrated the return of ancient Korean royal books from France with a procession, traditional ceremonies and performances that involved more than 1,000 officials and local residents. The celebrations came after the final batch of the 297-volume "Oegyujanggak" books arrived in South Korea late last month. The texts, featuring protocols of royal ceremonies and rites from the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), were looted by French troops in 1866 when they invaded Ganghwa Island in retaliation for Koreans' persecution of French Catholic missionaries. The books had been kept at an ancient royal library, known as Oegyujanggak, on the island located west of Seoul from the late 18th century. The celebrations took place in and around the site of the ancient library, starting with a 1-kilometer procession from Ganghwasanseong Fortress to Oegyujanggak that reenacted the books' transfer to the library in the 18th century. More than 500 people took part in the parade, including residents of the county of Ganghwa, located on the island, as well as soldiers, students and actors. They escorted palanquins carrying copies of the ancient books, as the original texts are now being stored at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul. To Read More… Hungarian Natural History Under Threat Image Courtesy of N. Bauer, HNHM By Marian Turner from nature.com Looking for a new home: 200 human mummies from the eighteenth century, the remains of rare European dinosaurs and 10 million other artefacts currently at the Hungarian Natural History Museum, which is facing eviction later this year. The Hungarian government plans to turn the historic Budapest building given to the museum after the fall of communism in 1989 into a university to train the military or the police. Scientists in Hungary and abroad are shocked by the move because the imposing 1836 Ludovika building has been extensively renovated for the museum, and curators are still moving the collections in. They say that the museum has not been offered an alternative site, and fear that the collections will have to be stored in crates until a new home is found. To Read More…

Publishing News

Announcing the Winner of the International Award for Excellence Congratulations to Donald Dunham the winner of the International Award for Excellence in the inclusive museum field with his paper Inclusivity, Objectivity, and The Ideal: The Museum as Utopian Space At first glance the contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities appears to provide all the necessary ingredients for inclusion into the utopic environment: the museum program generally provides access to all, a scholarly objectivity in the display of curated artifacts, and, in exhibit design, the object displayed ideally. The museum as an ideal venue (outside the intended or original context) for select objects, for example, can be decoded through the British Museum s neo-classical pedimented entry as well as through the Museum of Modern Art s 1939 International Style structure designed by Philip Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone as an embodiment of the Modernist Utopian ideology. However, not all museum structures, spaces, and installation furniture appear to fit the utopian template. Daniel Libeskind s deconstructivist Jewish Museum in Berlin does not conjure up perfect worlds, in fact quite the opposite. Nevertheless, within the dystopian shadow of history lie the roots of Libeskind s discontinuous void: the survival and rebirth of a broken people, a concept also found in the utopian work of the Russian Constructivists. This paper examines the museum as a utopian space; using case studies and contrasting museum agendas, The Ideal is explored and challenged as prerequisite in the planning and maintenance of museum space. Series: On Museums We are accepting book proposals for the imprint On Museums. Common Ground is setting new standards of rigorous academic knowledge creation and scholarly publication. Unlike other publishers, we re not interested in the size of potential markets or competition from other books. We re only interested in the intellectual quality of the work. If your book is a brilliant contribution to a specialist area of knowledge that only serves a small intellectual community, we still want to publish it. If it is expansive and has a broad appeal, we want to publish it too, but only if it is of the highest intellectual quality.

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