From kmccook at tampabay.rr.com Mon Nov 2 07:02:57 2009 From: kmccook at tampabay.rr.com (kmccook@tampabay.rr.com) Date: Mon Nov 2 07:03:00 2009 Subject: [Flam] Museums and Restitution Message-ID: <4AEECA71.20267.39287B0@kmccook.tampabay.rr.com> Call for papers Museums and Restitution International Conference 8-9 July 2010, University of Manchester http://www.manchester.ac.uk/museumsandrestitution/ Deadline for Abstracts: Friday 11th December 2009 Museums and Restitution is a two-day international conference organised by the Centre for Museology and The Manchester Museum at the University of Manchester. The conference examines the issue of restitution in relation to the changing role and authority of the museum, focussing on new ways in which these institutions are addressing the subject. Restitution is one of the most emotive and complex issues facing the museum world in the twenty first century. Its current high profile reflects changing global power relations and the increasingly vocal criticisms of the historical concentration of the world's heritage in the museums of the West. The 2002 Declaration of the Importance and Value of Universal Museums, which was signed by the directors of eighteen of the world's most powerful museums, pushed the subject to the forefront of debate as never before. Over recent years, the issue of restitution has taken on a new complexion with different processes emerging. We have seen an increasing emphasis on museums working with source communities, and with new forms of restitution other than object restitution - such as visual and knowledge restitution. The language of discussion too has changed, with the term 'reunification', for example, rather than 'repatriation' now often being used in relation to the Parthenon Marbles. The opening of New Acropolis Museum in Athens in June 2009 has added a further dimension to the debates. We are also seeing new countries gaining increasing prominence in restitution debates: for example, the official response from the government of the People's Republic of China to the Yves Saint Laurent auction of Chinese looted bronzes at Christie's in Paris in March 2009. This is a trend clearly set to continue. This conference will bring together museum professionals and academics from a wide range of fields (including museology, archaeology, anthropology, art history and cultural policy) to share ideas on contemporary approaches to restitution from the viewpoint of museums. Possible themes - New museums, new developments - Visual, knowledge and digital repatriation - Authority and power: voices listened to, voices heard - Beyond ownership? Loans, travelling exhibitions, exchanges - Reflections on returns Please send a title and a short proposal of no more than 300 words and biographical details to Louise Tythacott louise.tythacott@manchester.ac.uk and Kostas Arvanitis kostas.arvanitis@manchester.ac.uk Deadline for Abstracts: Friday 11th December 2009 Jim [cid:image001.jpg@01CA5BA0.CDE851D0] ****************************** Jim Roberts Hon FMA Webmaster University of Leicester School of Museum Studies http://www.le.ac.uk/museumstudies +44 (0)116 252 3961 ****************************** The University of Leicester's School of Museum Studies has the highest proportion of world-leading research in any subject in any UK university (RAE 2008) My blog... A Village Life http://livingvillage.blogspot.com/ ------- End of forwarded message ------- Kathleen de la Pe?a McCook http://librarian.lishost.org/ From kmccook at tampabay.rr.com Thu Nov 5 08:14:55 2009 From: kmccook at tampabay.rr.com (kmccook@tampabay.rr.com) Date: Thu Nov 5 08:15:00 2009 Subject: [Flam] CULTURAL HERITAGE on line. Empowering users F Message-ID: <4AF2CFCF.20228.5C8707E@kmccook.tampabay.rr.com> Special collections librarianship in Florence Italy this December. Now in the realm of digital preservation, data curation, digital humanities & archivists especially in our LIS education programs it seems / Karen W CULTURAL HERITAGE on line. Empowering users: an active role for user communities Programme: http://www.rinascimento-digitale.it/conference2009- programme.phtml Conference Website: http://www.rinascimento- digitale.it/conference2009.phtml Conference sponsored by IFLA-PAC: "CULTURAL HERITAGE on line. Empowering users: an active role for user communities" Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, Ministero per i Beni e le Attivit? Culturali and The Library of Congress are delighted to present the Conference CULTURAL HERITAGE on line Empowering users: an active role for user communities 15-16 December 2009, Florence, Italy Date: 15 December, 2009 - 16 December, 2009 Location: Florence, Italy Description: The Foundation Rinascimento Digitale, in collaboration with the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and the Library of Congress, is delighted to announce the 2nd edition: "CULTURAL HERITAGE online Empowering users: an active role for user communities". The conference aims to explore, analyze, and evaluate the state of the art and future trends in user communities and cultural contents on the web from an international perspective, and bring together academic researchers, policy makers and practitioners, providing a forum for the discussion and dissemination of the selected themes. Main Topics Cultural heritage and interactive Web Digital libraries Digital humanities Cooperation among museums, archives, libraries Digital preservation Who Should Attend: Cultural heritage institutions administrators and curators Digital humanities researchers and students Cultural tourism operators Professional associations in the fields of museums, archives, libraries Funding agencies Technology providers and developers From Linda.Mckee at ringling.org Mon Nov 9 09:14:17 2009 From: Linda.Mckee at ringling.org (McKee, Linda) Date: Mon Nov 9 09:14:20 2009 Subject: [Flam] Ringling Museum Internships available Message-ID: <8F13985725E86D4F8C59AF889BFC3B901BA0F46EEE@henri.rma.ringling.org> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://mailman.acomp.usf.edu/pipermail/flam/attachments/20091119/1d112ae2/attachment.html From whitebird at sanctum.com Sat Nov 21 13:24:17 2009 From: whitebird at sanctum.com (Carmine) Date: Sat Nov 21 13:23:44 2009 Subject: [Flam] Attendance Up at National Museum of American History Message-ID: <001101ca6ad7$d6ea6980$2f01a8c0@CBELL> Posted by Carmine Bell http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/20/AR2009112003931.html?wpisrc=newsletter After a makeover, American History's back in fashion By Jacqueline Trescott Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, November 21, 2009 It's one year to the day since the National Museum of American History reopened with its remodeled, reorganized central core. And if attendance figures are to be believed, the renovation has been an unqualified success. By Saturday, 4 million people will have strolled past the museum's signature giant metallic flag, which leads the way to the real Star-Spangled Banner and its new presentation. That's an increase of about 33 percent over the roughly 3 million visitors the museum received in 2005, the last full year it was open. Thanks to better signage and clearer sightlines, these visitors have easily found Thomas Jefferson's lap desk, now 233 years old, not to mention that green Muppet called Kermit the Frog, now 40. The museum's popularity is not surprising, what with $85 million having been spent to spiff up its exhibitions and space. However, the throngs also returned because they missed an important stop on the Washington history circuit. The museum had stood on the Mall for 44 years when it closed in 2006. It was kind of dark and confusing, but stuffed with treasures -- the steam locomotive John Bull, Duke Ellington's compositions and Dorothy's ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz." No matter how jumbled its critics labeled it, the American History museum was consistently drawing crowds in 2002, when a blue-ribbon commission concluded it needed an overhaul of its identity, physical spaces and subjects. And so, museum planners proposed a five-story atrium off the Mall entrance and stressed the need for an overhaul of its signature galleries. "People do come to the Smithsonian to connect with the national experience and to get a sense of the meaning of what it means to be part of the country's history," said Brent D. Glass, the museum's director for seven years. "We are hoping they come away with a greater historic literacy and understanding of the connections between the themes." During the past year, history was also happening outside the museum's walls, Glass admitted, which pushed a lot of people through the doors. "With the election and the financial crisis, people were focusing on history much more. People were talking about how it was unprecedented to have an African American and women running, and how unprecedented the recession was. So people wanted to know about the Great Depression and the civil rights movement." Next week, to accommodate visitors on the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving (typically the Mall's busiest days), the museum will close at 7:30 instead of the usual 5:30. Among the achievements of the past year: a new documents gallery; the enduringly popular first ladies display was renovated, reopening last December; the maritime hall reopened. And, to mark the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, the museum gathered 60 important objects associated with him in one gallery. Special shows, such as one focusing on the Scurlock Studio, a Washington photography business, and the Bracero Program, a history of Mexican farm workers in the United States, were mounted. Drawing from the 3 million objects in the collection, the curatorial staff changed small cases, such as one dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Hawaii's statehood. A bonus came when two Hollywood movies with a connection to the museum were released: "Julie and Julia," about the cooking icon Julia Child, who donated her original kitchen to the museum, and "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian," which featured Gen. George Custer's jacket and Muhammad Ali's boxing gloves. Making costumed characters a regular part of the museum experience has also been a crowd-pleaser. In the first year since the museum reopened, one out of every four visitors has had what Glass calls "personal contact" with living history theater, special tours with docents and hands-on carts. The visitor might run into Mary Young Pickersgill, the Baltimore seamstress who sewed the Star-Spangled Banner. Or one of the black students who sat down at the segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., in February 1960, providing a catalyst for the civil rights movement. The tweaking will continue, Glass said. For years, critics have wondered why the museum doesn't have a detailed timeline of American history's facts, people and events. That's still in the future, Glass said. In the meantime, close to Christmas week, the museum will introduce an interactive table with events that changed the nation. The subjects will cover culture, politics, military and technology. "People are interested in the technology, as well as the context. For now, it meets our purpose and invites people to make comments," said Glass. "My hope is that people will argue about what was left out." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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