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International Museum Day 2009:"Museums and Tourism"

ICOM and WFFM launch International Museum Day 2009 on “Museums and Tourism”

On or around 18 MAY 2009, thousands of museums on all continents will be celebrating ethical, responsible, sustainable tourism, showing how heritage can bring tourists and local communities together in new, mutually beneficial relationships.

Alissandra Cummins, President of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and Carla Bossi-Comelli, President of the World Federation of Friends of Museums (WFFM/FMAM) unveiled a joint effort to showcase ethical tourism on International Museum Day 2009 this year. How can museums foster a new relationship between visitors and the local communities which rarely have a chance to meet to promote sustainable development?

Cummins suggests: “It’s the heritage connection. Heritage is our shared identity-as humanity, as community. It’s whatever people like to think about themselves, whatever they believe in and however they choose to express it. “Museums & Tourism” encourages museum professionals and volunteers to work together with visitors and tourists, creating interactions with local communities in order to experience heritage both inside and outside of the museum walls.”

ICOM created International Museum Day in 1977 to encourage awareness about the role of museums in the development of society. Momentum has been rising unabated ever since. In 2007, ICOM celebrated “Universal Heritage” and last year, ICOM inaugurated its own “Social Change and Development” with the first virtual global museums event ever at The Tech Museum of Innovation on Second Life. In real life, the Day garnered record-breaking participation in most museums holding events on 18th of
May 2008. More than 20,000 museums in 90 countries from Australia to Zimbabwe participated.

This May, museums will host contests, workshops, conferences, performances, stay open day and night, and devise new virtual or real tours where itineraries lead to and from museums and local sights. As opposed to the standard tour, museum itineraries are embracing awareness-raising, educational, thematic, historical or chronological tours, with spice and passion, based on collections and sharing expertise. Inspired by World Heritage tours and high-end museum travel, the aim is to bring deeper mutual understanding drawing knowledge from heritage experienced together. “For visitors, tourists and locals along with curators and volunteers,” -states Cummins – “International Museum Day can become a bonding experience.”
(http://icom.museum/2009_contents.html)

ICOM and the WFFM, along with UNESCO, UNWTO, ICOMOS, ICCROM and other organizations have long emphasized the importance of heritage awareness for sustainable tourism. “The WFFM and ICOM “Declaration for Worldwide Sustainable Cultural Tourism” is a first step in a long term project partnering our organizations to tackle this new challenge,” declared WFFM President Carla Bossi-Comelli. “Since friends deal more directly with visitors, a majority of whom are tourists, we are ideally positioned to promote respect for our heritage. It is fundamental to
focus clearly the role of associations of friends in undertaking actions louder than words, to “enjoy and not destroy”… ICOM and WFFM should bear in mind their own Code of Ethics as a fruitful source of principles to engage local communities.”

Reacting to public and private agendas to develop museums to boost tourism as new destinations and given the present financial crisis, ICOM and WFFM hope “ethical tourism” and “heritage bonding” will put communities back into the equation, starting on International Museum Day 2009. “There’s no reason why this won’t be the beginning of some new lifetime relationships! In any case, it’s surely a new way of looking at both tourism and museums!” adds Julien Anfruns, new Director General of ICOM.

Sugestão de leitura: "Heritage Learning Matters"

Heritage Learning Matters: Museums and Universal Heritage
Vários Autores: Graham Black (UK), Fiona Cameron (Australia), Elaine Heumann Gurian (USA), Eilean Hooper-Greenhill (UK), Lynda Kelly (Australia), Feng Yin Ken (Taiwan), Eva Reussner (Germany), Heidemarie Uhl (Austria), W. Richard West, Jr. (USA), Henrik Zipsane (Sweden) (entre outros)
Edição: Hadwig Kraeutler (http://www.schlebruegge.com/)
Descrição Física: 300 p.
ISBN 978-3-85160-131-2

Sobre o livro:

Museums have been described as trusted and powerful sources of learning and inspiration, safe places for the exploration of ideas, and vital partners in communal efforts to transfer diverse narratives and knowledge. In many people’s lives, however, museums do not figure at all. Others experience them as excluding, very academic, boring, and irrelevant.

Museums, in reciprocity with the communities they serve, construct and take responsibility for interpretations of heritage, of ‘our’ and ‘other’ worlds. This heritage may be expressed in object collections and materiality, but also in languages, relations, and mentalities. What institutional and social structures can help to make this heritage sharing democratic, egalitarian, broad and inclusive? Are there concepts, ‘success factors’ or results of empirical research which warrant ‘best practice’ and a truly socially integrated use of museums for learning?

What missions, planning, and activities will help museums to engage with diverse audiences, also with those not yet reached or represented? What are tested approaches and key messages that museum communicators and museum educators should adopt? How do we convey the value of museum and heritage learning to the policy-makers in the museum and to the outside, to politicians, the media, or the public at large?

The ICOM/CECA’07-Conference volume offers many opportunities for contemplating these issues.

More than 50 contributions – major papers by renowned museologists and case studies by museum communicators from around the world – reflect topical investigations and current practices, and invite the readers to take part in an ongoing discussion.

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SUBSCRIPTION

The ICOM/CECA’07-Conference volume will be published in summer 2008 by SCHLEBRÜGGE.EDITOR in Vienna.

The volume can be ordered from now on until July 31st at the subscription price of € 28,- (+ € 4,- postage), price after that date: € 38,-. Please send your subscription (with your name and address) to schlebruegge.editor@aon.at. We will confirm receipt of your subscription by mail.

Note: you can order by email to schlebruegge.editor@aon.at

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Fonte: Icom-L Mailing List

ICOM News: "Universal Heritage"

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Publicado recentemente, o n.º 3-4 ICOM News 2007 apresenta os artigos seguintes:

– Message from the President
by Alissandra Cummins

Resolution No. 1: Protection and Promotion of Universal Heritage with Respect for Cultural and Natural Diversity (S.O. 1)
MAC and the Caribbean Inventory on the Slave Route Project
by Ieteke Witteveen,
President, Museums Association of the Caribbean (MAC), Director, National Archeologisch & Anthropologisch Museum (Curaçao)

Interview with Regine Schulz – Chairperson, Resolutions Committee 2007

Resolution No. 2: Accessibility of Information and Communication (S.O.2)
Towards the Creation of an ICOM Digital Resources Centre
by ICOM-Secretariat: Carla Bonomi, Webmaster, Asghar Hassanzadeh, Archivist, Lysa Hochroth, Editor and Elisabeth Jani, Documentalist

Resolution No. 3: Informing Museums on Intellectual Property Issues
Response from the Ethics Committee
Bernice Murphy,
Chairperson, ICOM Ethics Committee

Resolution No. 4: Preventing Illicit Traffic and Promoting the Physical Return, Repatriation and Restitution of Cultural Property
On Restitution, Exhibitions and Heritage
Patrick Effiboley,
ICOM-Benin, ICOFOM, CIMCIM

Resolution No. 5: Disaster and Emergency Planning
ICOM-SEE, Regional Groups and MEP/TIEM
Mila Popovic – Zivancevic,
Chairperson, ICOM-SEE, Working Group of ICOM-Europe for South East Europe, Conservator Councillor, Head of “Diana” Department for Preventive Conservation, National Museum in Belgrade

Resolution No. 6: Promoting Sustainable Development (S.O.2)
Case Study – Hasankeyf: a Medieval Site Threatened by the Ilisu Dam

Resolution No. 7: Championing Higher Standards and Professional Development (S.O.3)
UMAC & the Latin American University Museums Network
William Alfonso López Rosas,
UMAC, Professor, Director of the Museo de Arte and the MA in Museology and Cultural Heritage Management, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Resolution No. 8: Improving the Consultative and Decision Making Process (S.O.4)
There might be some turbulence on our flight to Shanghai 2010…Knut Wik,
Chairperson, Advisory Committee

More Articles:

Historic Meeting of ICOM Former Presidents and Honorary Members
Voices of Young Bursaries
From Interviews with Jehanne Fabre, Editorial Assistant, ICOM-Secretariat
Diversity at the ICOM 2007: a newcomer’s observations
Clara Arokiasamy,
Chair, London Mayor’s Heritage and Diversity Task Force and Independent Consultant/Adviser

Artigos publicados em ICOM News, Vol. 60, No.3-4, 2007

Pode consultar o resumo destes artigos no seguinte endereço:
http://icom.museum/GC2007_eng.html

Dia Internacional dos Museus 2008

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O ICOM já anunciou que o tema deste ano para o dia internacional dos museus será:

“Museums as Agents of Social Change and Development”/”Museus como agentes de Mudança Social e Desenvolvimento”.

Alissandra Cummins, Presidente do ICOM afirma: “While traditionally museums are known for their collections, more and more museums are taking an active key role in exploring social issues with communities to contribute to their development. The educational and ethical function of the museum is to engage culturally diverse contemporary communities through exhibitions and workshops and their design. International Museum Day shows that it is possible to gather together in a new way to interpret the past in light of the present to shape a better future.”

Alissandra Cummins acrescenta: “The developing world has been suffering from the digital divide: on International Museum Day, we want to show how museums can help bridge that divide between two worlds through new creative interaction between museum professionals.”

Para mais informações, consulte:
http://icom.museum/imd.html