Conferences & Training

American Association of Museums (AAM) Annual Meeting 2010

Congrès annuel de l'Association canadienne des centres de sciences 2010

Congrès annuel de l'Association canadienne des centres de sciences
Du mercredi 5 au
vendredi 7 mai 2010

Museum Association of Newfoundland and Labrador: Certificate in Basic Museum Studies

This program is intended to be comprehensive and flexible and will provide museum workers with a general introduction into current theories, standards, and best practices for museums.

Post-Graduate Programs in Museum Studies, Interpretive Studies, and Art Gallery & Museum Studies

Cleaning 2010: New insights into the cleaning of paintings

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
CLEANING 2010: New insights into the cleaning of paintings
May 26th-28th, 2010
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain)
The conference "New insights into the cleaning of paintings" (CLEANING 2010) is intended to be an international forum where the most relevant scientists and conservators in the field present their latest research as well as their most relevant work.

This conference is a joint effort of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) and the Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute (MCI) and it will be held at the UPV in May 26th to 28th, 2010.

After the Brussels conference in 1990 and the one in Dusseldorf on surface cleaning in 2003, this conference focuses on:
-The chemistry of drying and film formation (tempera, oils, acryilics, alkyds ...)
-The effects of residual solvents on the mechanical properties of paint films
-The effects of solvent leaching in the mechanical properties of paint films
-The chemical alterations of paint films,
-The effects of cleaning and the impact of the environment,
-Aesthetics (patinas, methodologies...)
-Conservation treatments with special emphasis in cleaning issues, boundaries and challenges.
-Cleaning softwares ...
-Others ...

It is expected that about 20 guest lectures will complete the plenary session and a poster session will also be displayed.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.cleaning2010.upv.es
The program of lectures will be updated in the forthcoming days.

An on-line registration as well as an on-line submission form for poster proposals will be available soon in this same website.

The deadline to submit poster proposals is next January 15th, 2010

Applied Museum Studies Program

This three-year advanced diploma program provides students with a sound background in museum work and the technical areas common to all museums. These include: collection management, exhibit preparation, conservation, educational programming, and museum management. The program has three components: academic studies, workshops, and field placements.
NOTE: Successful applicants with a university degree will be placed in the second year of the program.

Ontario Museum Association: Certificate in Museum Studies

Certificate in Museum Studies

Association des Musées du Nouveau-Brunswick : Développement professionel

Développement professionel

Sir Sandford Fleming College, Certificate in Museum Management and Curatorship

Information about the Museum Management and Curatorship academic program at Sir Sandford Fleming College.

University of Waterloo, Cultural Management Institute - Online Learning

From the Web site: "Here you'll find online resources for learning new skills and competencies of value to individuals with management responsibilities in the performing arts, visual arts and heritage sector."

Programme de Cybermuséologie

MA - Photographic Preservation & Collections Management

The joint graduate program provides an integrated program of academic study and professional education that will equip students to meet current responsibilities and future demands in photographic preservation and in managing and preserving photographic collections. Its faculty includes photographic historians, scientists, practitioners, curators and other museum professionals.

The first year of the program is given at Ryerson University in Toronto. The second year is in Rochester at the George Eastman House, while the six-week internship is carried out at a museum or archive during the summer months between the first and second years.

The program is the only one of its kind in the world. Its curriculum is specifically designed to deepen students' understanding of the history of the photographic medium, particularly its social, cultural, and instrumental uses, and the purposes and functions of photographs and photographic collections.

Alberta Museums Association: Learning Program

Basic Museum Practices Certificate program

City University, London, Department of Arts Policy and Management

From the Web site: "Europe's largest interdisciplinary centre for arts, museums and heritage policy and management studies and research, housed above London's Barbican Arts Centre. In addition to detailed information about the Department and its work, the Department's website offers access to around 800 links and original documents about many aspects of cultural policy and management."

Master's Programme in International Museum Studies

A two-year Master's Programme based in English in association with Gothenburg University and the Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Call for Papers - Taking Stock: Museum Studies and Museum Practices in Canada

CALL FOR PAPERS

Taking Stock: Museum Studies and Museum Practices in Canada
Museum Studies Program, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Canada
April 22-24, 2010
http://takingstockmuseumstudies.ischool.utoronto.ca/

Over the past 40 years, the discipline of Museum Studies has grown beyond its foundational premise as the study of museum organization and management to become a field informed by interdisciplinarian approaches, pedagogies and techniques. Some have argued that Museum Studies has not only come of age, as an academic discipline it has moved into the mainstream. Yet for many, the very formulation of this discipline continues to be a subject of intense reflection and debate, while its relationship with the community of professional practitioners it intends to serve is complex.

While much has been written on Museum Studies/Museology from the UK, US, Australian and European perspectives, less has been articulated about Canadian traditions in the field. Despite over four decades of formal academic training and almost two centuries of professional practices, there are no Canadian national journals, nor annual academic conferences dedicated to the subject of Museum Studies. Doubtless a Canadian museology exists, however the research of Canadian museum scholars continues to be diffused across regional, linguistic, and disciplinarian lines.

The Master of Museum Studies program at the University of Toronto marks its 40th anniversary with a conference that aims to create a forum for a nation-wide debate and critical examination of the academic discipline of Museum Studies in Canada in historical and contemporary contexts, and how this discipline registers within broader global traditions, pedagogies and practices.

Robert R. Janes will be providing the keynote address on Thursday, April 22, 2010.

**Instructions for submission of paper abstracts:
We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers (8-10 pp) that address the field of Museum Studies in Canada, as academic discipline and in terms of the nature of research this field and its practitioners undertake. We welcome contributions from a wide range of viewpoints that interrogate the field of Museum Studies, its histories, epistemologies, theoretical underpinnings and practices. Acknowledging that the discipline is itself informed by a variety of other disciplines, we are interested in diverse methodological and subject-area approaches. Presentations may include analyses of case studies, historical overviews, and comparative frameworks, as well as theoretical articulations of and for museological practice.

Possible trajectories of enquiry may arise from the following themes:
· What is "Canadian" about Museum Studies in Canada?
· National/regional traditions in the discipline of Museum Studies: its curriculum and research interests;
· The relationship of Museum Studies to professional museum practice in Canada;
· Citizenship and national museology;
· Museology and Canadian cultural policy;
· History and theory of Canadian museological practices;
· Canadian museological theory and praxis in contemporary political context;
· How Canadian museological practices respond to contemporary issues of citizenship, identity, community, and meaning-making.

Please send a 300-word paper proposal and one page C.V. to takingstockmuseumstudies@gmail.com no later than November 30, 2009. Please indicate "Taking Stock" in the subject box of your message, and include the title of your presentation and your institutional affiliation in your correspondence. Successful applicants will be notified in December 2009.

Delegates who would like to participate in the event but who wish not to present are encouraged to contact Nina Boric at nina.boric@utoronto.ca (416.505.8009) to register their interest. Information is also available on the website http://takingstockmuseumstudies.ischool.utoronto.ca/

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University of Toronto, Museum Studies Program (graduate)

The aim of the Master of Museum Studies program is to provide students with both a comprehensive knowledge of the function of museums in their broader social and cultural context and a methodology for research. Thus, the program is both academic and professional.
Scholarship and its practical application in different environments will be examined in a variety of core courses. Students will have the opportunity to pursue special interests and to develop their practical skills through individual projects and internships.

Association of Manitoba Museums: Certificate Program in Museum Practice

Certificate Program in Museum Practice

Instituto Latinoamericano de Museologia (Latin American Institute of Museology) (ILAM)

ILAM is an institute of the National University of Costa Rica (UNA) dedicated to the study of Latin American Museology. ILAM proposes to join efforts to provide training, support and the exchange of information for the improvement and development of museums and natural parks of Latin America.
The fundamental objective of ILAM is to provoke a process of constructive criticism and reflection on the role of museums and parks in our region. Also to identify and effectuate the necessary changes to develop an harmonic, responsible and involved relationship between our communities and their natural and cultural heritage.

Association des musées canadiens (AMC) : Congrès 2010 - Demande de communications

Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec : Muséologie

From the Web site: "La muséologie se rapporte aux sciences et aux techniques qui concourent à la conservation, au classement, à la présentation d'oeuvres, d'objets dans les musées. Au Québec, les institutions muséales couvrent principalement les secteurs de l'art, de l'histoire et de l'ethnologie, de la science et des technologies, des sciences naturelles et de l'environnement."

University of Victoria, Cultural Resource Management Program

The Cultural Resource Management Program (CRMP) at the University of Victoria has been offering accessible, innovative learning opportunities to heritage, museum, and cultural professionals throughout Canada and beyond since 1982. Both on-campus and distance education courses are designed to appeal to busy professionals who wish to develop and maintain their understanding of contemporary and emerging professional issues and competencies - while also juggling competing demands in the workplace and the community.
Strengthen your professional knowledge, skills, and career prospects by registering in individual courses on an as-needed basis, or by participating in one of our select programs. All our courses relate theory to practice, involve expert instructors and resource people, and bring together a fascinating mix of participants, experience, and perspectives.

Des lignes directrices ICOM de programme d'études pour le Développement Professionnel dans les musées

Du site W3 : "L'intention du Directives ICOM de Programme d'Études pour le Développement Professionnel dans les Musées est de fournir un document référence duquel sommaires compréhensives d'éducation. Ce document doit servir les exigences, objectives, et ressources des musées et leur employés. Les directives approchent le dessein d'enseignement relatif aux capabilités requis par une carrière dans les musées, plutôt que les méthodes traditionnels des tâches du métier. Les techniques sont aperçus par la connaissance et leur réalisations au point de vue d'un cadre des réalités sociaux, téchnologiques, et économiques. Ça rend compte des priorités qui existent dans les emplois, dimensions, et métiers variés des musées, et des différents contextes culturelles."

8th ICICTH (International Conference on ICT in Health) SAMOS 2010

8th ICICTH 2010 aims to facilitate the discussion on the effective use of Information Communication Technologies in the process of healthcare and to provide a forum for scientific debate and constructive interaction in a multi cultural social environment. The conference provides a platform for scientists and clinicians to present research work; to exchange knowledge, ideas and experience and to identify and discuss the challenges and solutions to effective deployment of ICT applications and services.
8th ICICTH SAMOS 2010 is concerned with various topics of Biomedical and Health Informatics, education (e-learning) and health research.

Museums Association of Saskatchewan: Programs and Services

The Museums Association of Saskatchewan provides many programs and services to help bring awareness to the museums found in Saskatchewan.

MSc in Interpretation: Management & Practice (taught entirely online)

The MSc Interpretation: Management and Practice was established in 2005 through a multi-agency collaboration between senior interpretative practitioners from key organisations, renowned academics in the field of interpretation and researchers, to meet the growing demand for skilled and innovative professionals who can deliver effective interpretation products, programmes and communication.
Interpretation is a vital process in communicating the meaning of natural and cultural resources to visitors and local communities. Successful commercial tourism and cultural attractions are based on meaningful and well-presented interpretation. Public policy advocates in our national government and abroad are drawing on interpretive principles and techniques to promote greater public involvement and understanding of diverse issues from access, biodiversity and culture to sustainability and tourism.
The programme goes beyond theory and discussion to engage students in the practical application of the multidisciplinary knowledge and skills of interpretation to create a new, rounded interpretive professional. The programme is delivered by senior interpretive practitioners and academics in the UK through Perth College as a member of the UHI Millennium Institute and provides exciting postgraduate study opportunities for those working in the museum, heritage and natural sectors.

Ironbridge Institute, Heritage Management and Industrial Heritage: Postgraduate Courses

From the Web site: "Our teaching at the Ironbridge Institute is continually informed by our involvement in contemporary conservation issues. We are requently asked for advice, on the designation of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, on problems concerning the legislative protection of buildings, or the appropriateness of proposed museum developments. We are accustomed to working alongside professionals from recording and conservation agencies, from museums, and from the other professions in which our students make their careers."

ICOM Curricula Guidelines for Museum Professional Development

From the Web site: "The ICOM Curricula Guidelines for Museum Professional Development defines five broad areas of competencies-general descriptions of knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA's)-needed to work effectively in today's museums. The "tree" model depicted here illustrates the shared and functional competencies required by members of the museum field to understand and perform their jobs. Shared competencies, shown as roots and trunk, are those considered important for all workers to possess. Functional competencies, illustrated by interrelated branches and leaves, are those needed to perform specific activities."

Canadian Museums Association (CMA) Conference 2010: Call for Papers

Museums and the Web 2010

Museums and the Web is an annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line. Taking an international perspective, MW reviews and analyzes the issues and impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage.
Our community has been meeting since 1997, imagining, tracking, analyzing, and influencing the role museums play on the Web.